02-17-2004, 06:26 PM
Robert,<br>
I didn't say Tolkien was a Nazi. I know Tolkien hated the Nazis (probably the Romano-British side of the family showing through, his father was a native German from Saxony), but this doesn't change the fact he despised latin culture so much that he wanted to remove all latin from the Anglo Saxon language. It is an undeniable fact the 'Nordic North' is the civilized world in his fairy tales, and anyone South and East of there are the barbarians. He simply couldn't face the fact that his master race (and remember the Anglo Saxon British had much of the "Third World" under their heel in his day, were little more than cavemen when the mediterranean world had an advanced civiliazation. For hundreds of years the barbarian north changed almost nil, mud huts, endless intertribal feuds and boozing (just like Tolkien's favorite piece of literature, Beowulf confirms). True civilization did not come to these people until it was looted from the classical world. Tolkien could not bear this, and devoted his life to creating his myth that was just the opposite of history. <br>
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Many fantasy stories are just 'fun'. This one however has a sinister agenda. Had he lived to read it, old Adolf would have loved LOTR.<br>
<br>
Dan<br>
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I didn't say Tolkien was a Nazi. I know Tolkien hated the Nazis (probably the Romano-British side of the family showing through, his father was a native German from Saxony), but this doesn't change the fact he despised latin culture so much that he wanted to remove all latin from the Anglo Saxon language. It is an undeniable fact the 'Nordic North' is the civilized world in his fairy tales, and anyone South and East of there are the barbarians. He simply couldn't face the fact that his master race (and remember the Anglo Saxon British had much of the "Third World" under their heel in his day, were little more than cavemen when the mediterranean world had an advanced civiliazation. For hundreds of years the barbarian north changed almost nil, mud huts, endless intertribal feuds and boozing (just like Tolkien's favorite piece of literature, Beowulf confirms). True civilization did not come to these people until it was looted from the classical world. Tolkien could not bear this, and devoted his life to creating his myth that was just the opposite of history. <br>
<br>
Many fantasy stories are just 'fun'. This one however has a sinister agenda. Had he lived to read it, old Adolf would have loved LOTR.<br>
<br>
Dan<br>
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