Tolkien stopped Stuart Hall from doing his graduate thesis as he planned, either because of racism or because of anti-Marxism. He was a reactionary through and through
Shame he missed out on his biggest fan
why is he so greasy
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When you’re so anti-authoritarian that you support fascism because you think it’s less bad than those authoritarian communists.
This is the essence of anti-authoritarianism being such a mess of an ideology to hold. Tolkien was anti-authoritarian to the point that he opposed anarchists “whiskered men with bombs” as he called them. Claiming himself to be philosophically anarchist yet opposing anyone and everyone making any attempt to actually change the status quo.
He is the very essence of the same crowd that became tankiejerk. Anti-authoritarianism generally just leans towards supporting the status quo against everything because everything else is authoritarian and not utopian enough, entirely ignoring that the status quo is significantly more authoritarian.
“Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs) or to unconstitutional monarchy.”
He was an anti-modernity reactionary Christian who basically believed the feudal system was some kind of natural order, simple, beautiful, as god intended and that all this government, state and parliament nonsense ruined the simplicity of a simple peasant and his absolute despot. A guy who was afraid to use tape recorders and only started using one after recording the lord’s prayer first to cast out the demons. I don’t know why people think he would have any coherent or sane politics.
Not even a fully developed feudal system but Saxon era Britain with small kingdoms ruled by warrior chieftains with just “pure” illiterate hobbit peasants and a bunch of monks and priests. You basically get LOTR but in reality it was more like ASOIAF-GoT and reactionaries are generally delusional.
he hated the faceless machine of government oppressing people, but was absolutely fine with being personally oppressed by the local lord whose name and face he knew well.
incoherent nonsense.
he hated the faceless machine of government oppressing people, but was absolutely fine with being personally oppressed by the local lord whose name and face he knew well.
hegelian master-slave dialectic but it’s a pleasant conversation over afternoon tea
no no, you dont have tea with the lord. you take off your hat and bow when he passes through the village.
You turn over most of your grain to him and your family starves because there was less rainfall than usual this year.
or too much rainfall. the great famine of the early 1300’s was caused by a few years of nearly incessant rainfall. nothing could dry out properly and so the wheat crops failed and everything else turned to rot.
Well that’s a bummer
What else could you expect from posh britbongs, especially a university proffesor one
Also from South Africa pre-20th century even
It’s frankly a miracle he ended up anti-Apartheid before it was cool (1950s).
We can say at the very least that Tolkien wasn’t a Nazi, but unfortunately that still leaves him as an early 20th century lib, which is not a flattering thing to be.
He was 4 when they moved to England
Still raised by Boers tho
hey now
the Brits hated the boers too
we put them in concentration camps
Oh my god
Damn, didn’t know this one
