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What would've JRR Tolkien said if you'd told him that his works would become the equivalent of Norse mythology and Wagner to a new and even more embarrassing generation of Nazis (hexbear.net)

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Like if you'd told him that some turbodweeb would name his automated gestapo machine Palantir without a shred of irony, or some other dweeb naming a weapons company Anduril

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[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Not going to comment on weather I think he was racist beyond being a product of his time(not to engage in moral relativism), see the 'moral geography' in LOTR although he makes a point to explain that not all Easterlings etc are evil

But one of his explicit goals was to actually create a new British mythology, as he believed that there was a lot of English mythology that had been lost, he was especially enraptured of Welsh mythology like the Mabinogion and Arthurian legends and strove to create/emulate something like that for England

So imo he'd have a mixed reaction probably proud his work had such influence and success but wouldn't like the specific white supremacist/neo-nazi interpretation as it conflicts with his morals and politics derived from his Catholic Anarchist beliefs, and he would be aghast at the appropriation of concepts/names he came up with for tools of state oppression like Palantir and Andruil