[–] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

theres that one GCU in Excession that 'collects' atrocity & weaponry, sucks out the perpetrators memories for posterity---they call it 'Meatfucker' but i don't remember the polite name. Meatfucker could be a great asset to this plan

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    its not just the word swarthy come on orcs are darker, come from the east in numberless hordes... the Evil Men are south and east, also numerous, also craving the despotism of Sauron. fighting them are the fair, depreciating but god-chosen whites.

    this is how Winston Churchill saw the world. its how fascists see the world. orientalist, imperialist, and racist through and through

    just because we can wish away Tolkein's intent, call him a product of his time, it doesn't make his works any less appealing to the unsavory sorts who love it.

    the shire is a shire its medieval england idealised and divorced from reality, it cannot be anarchism as a real life philosophy when the reality of the idealized system is not. its like taking a liberal idealist for how liberalism works seriously because they wrote a fantasy book where it does work that way.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    its always this letter against the racist contents of his books. you dont suppose a fascist could ignore that Tolkein didnt specifically hate jewish people and content themselves with how he wrote of swarthy easterners and noble western white people?

    and the shire is not anarchist! he tries to distance himself from the actual anarchists and spin his own definition compatible with monarchy. Tolks wanted :dennis: but with more respect for the crown, feudalism but mysteriously lacking your lord getting the grain. Dithsmarcken basically lol

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