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J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘Profoundly Conservative’ Myths
Saturday, December 13, 2014 12:34
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“Both The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings turn on the ‘return of the king’ to his rightful throne,” and in both stories “‘victory’ means the reassertion of a feudal social structure which had been disrupted by ‘evil’,” writes fiction author Damien Walter of some of the 20th century’s most celebrated works of imagination.
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Source: http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/jrr_tolkiens_profoundly_conservative_myths_20141213/
OMG, if you think ANYTHING involving Tolkien is ‘Conservative’, you’ve lost your mind. You need to take a moment and actually read what LOTR or the Hobbit was really about.
Tolkien wrote LOTR from the perspective of ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT, ANTI-INDUSTRIALIZATION and ANTI-SOCIALISM. Therefore, he was against both fascism and socialism, as well as staunchly against the heartless Capitalism that both Fascists and Socialists try to paint ANY republic that is neither, as being.
Tolkien symbolized all of this quite simply. Sauromon (the White Wizard) represented ‘false leaders’ who sold you one thing, then did the other once in power. Isengard (Sauromon’s tower) represented (by the point of ‘The Two Towers’ in the story) the corruption of nature, good and wholesomeness with the perversion of industrialization (which Tolkien himself abhored). He also clearly denounced corrupt leadership and kings (both the Steward of Gondor and the possessed King of Rowhan exemplify this, that if they cannot be fixed, they must go).
IN FACT, if anything, Tolkien was moreso a Druid than anything else. He saw a synchronicity with nature that was destroyed when men ‘meddled’ too much. He routinely showed us that ANYTHING can become evil through ignorance, meddling or just blatant ‘over-trust’ in others (referencing the ENT’s not realizing that Sauromon was turned evil, until they saw what he had done to Isengard).
No, Tolkien had no ‘myth of conservatism’ about him. Quite the contrary, his lessons show us that to stray from the natural order leads to evil. To listen to foolish leaders is certain destruction. To blindly chase after power through industrialization is madness, and that there are few noble kings worthy of leading any land, let alone the whole of a world (as in Middle Earth and the whole of all the lands).
If you see Tolkien envisioning his LOTR story as ‘conservative myth’, then obviously you see the opposing potential (if Sauron had vanquished good, beaten middle earth, and returned to not only claim the ring, but rule the whole of all nations) as a liberal victory. If Sauron is liberal victory, no thanks – I’ll take Tolkien’s conservative myth anyday.
Once again, you’ve proven one thing – that progressive Socialists have no idea of what their ‘accomplished vision’ really is, as long as they can destroy conservative Republics as ‘not what they want’, that’s really all they’re out to do. With destroyers like progressive Socialists, who needs Lucifer?