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Exactly.
@DarkAsh, you really are a good person.
That's the sort of thing he liked to write, yeah.Fairy Glade's Fairy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 03, 2018 6:56 pmI remember one book... there's a city, a republic, where the people have civil rights & political rights & everything... then the people topple the government and replace it with an absolute monarchy, an almighty king... and give up all their rights... and they live happily ever after...
Not paying into a kickstarter or being critical of a comic's direction is not grounds to ban someone from a forum. You know what is, though? Attacking/insulting people who have a different viewpoint.Fairy Glade's Fairy wrote: ↑Mon Jun 04, 2018 3:56 pm@DarkAsh, you really are a good person.
but, y'know, this wouldn't be happening if the kid hadn't brought up the subject... he openly boasted about never giving a cent to Giz coz she's not really important, unlike charities & such.... between his constant use of disparaging words to insult these comics, and now setting himself as an example of not pledging money to Giz, I dunno how much longer he has...
Whoa, color me impressed!Rosa wrote: ↑Mon Jun 04, 2018 5:20 pmThat's the sort of thing he liked to write, yeah.Fairy Glade's Fairy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 03, 2018 6:56 pmI remember one book... there's a city, a republic, where the people have civil rights & political rights & everything... then the people topple the government and replace it with an absolute monarchy, an almighty king... and give up all their rights... and they live happily ever after...
The guy was a typical upper-middle-class, ultraconservative Oxford professor who loved tradition and the ruling British oligarchy and hated dark-skinned races, the working class, women's liberation, socialism, democracy, and, in general, anything that could bring power to the people. This was a perfectly normal outlook, at the time, for a man of his upbringing and academic rank. Tolkien heartily supported the fascist regimes that took power in the 20s and 30s in most of Europe; like the bulk of British intellectuals of similar status, he felt that these fascist states acted as a military belt against what they feared most: a commie onslaught from the USSR. Of course, he also supported Hitler in the first years. He only changed his mind (again, like most British academics) when Hitler and other fascist leaders started threatening British interests. As for those fascists dictators who were never hostile to Britain, like Franco in Spain, he supported them for as long as he lived. Fritz Heinrich in his book on Nazism calls him a British Nazi, pure and simple. The term British Nazi, in this context, is used for upper-class or upper-middle-class individuals who were fascists and racists but were different from German Nazis in their brand of racism. German Nazis disliked Jews because they thought Jews were Semitic, while they were ok with people from India because they saw them as Indo-Aryans, just as good as European Aryans. British Nazis were ok with Jews because they had white skin, while they despised people from India because they had brown skin. For British Nazis, racial superiority was all in the skin - all whiteys were cool, all darkies were inferior - and they laughed at German Nazis who opposed Aryan whiteys to Semitic whiteys. Tolkien famously wrote a snobbish letter mocking Germans on that subject.
All these ideas, fears and tenets are reflected in his books. Tolkien in his late years tried to deny this, probably worried that it would affect sales, but it's impossible to take him seriously. The racism is there, the misogyny is there, the belief in the rule of a warrior elite is there. The superior men of purest blood are taller and stronger, with fair skin, brown or blond hair and blue or gray eyes. The corrupt men are wogs and darkies. Mordor is at the East, a vast land of slaves who work in state-owned farms, governed by a villain who wants to conquer the West; from there comes the onslaught of the Haradrim flying red flags. Oh, and the evil leader has a six-letter name starting with S and ending with N. And don't get me started on Tolkien's ladies; his far-right social views of a woman's place in the world completely permeate his stories.
You see, these are the things you don't find in Wikipedia - because those who write the Wiki articles on Tolkien and Tolkien's books are his legion of fans. This is why someone who has no knowledge of anything except what he reads in Wiki is going the wrong way; this is why proper study of a subject before claiming that you understand it is so very important.
the wikipedia articles on Tolkien & his works are pretty much the same as those you find in Tolkienite fansites! there really isn't anyhting in wikipedia about how his radical right-wing political & religious ideas shaped his book's world! 
I wish more posts would be so full of useful info, instead of pointless hate against sexuality and decry of the comic...
Of course, it's the same with the U.S., going against the Nazis while doing segregation and Jim Crow laws in the South... I wasn't surprised when I learned that Tolkien was ultra-conservative and really regressive.Rosa wrote: ↑Mon Jun 04, 2018 5:20 pmGerman Nazis disliked Jews because they thought Jews were Semitic, while they were ok with people from India because they saw them as Indo-Aryans, just as good as European Aryans. British Nazis were ok with Jews because they had white skin, while they despised people from India because they had brown skin. For British Nazis, racial superiority was all in the skin - all whiteys were cool, all darkies were inferior - and they laughed at German Nazis who opposed Aryan whiteys to Semitic whiteys. Tolkien famously wrote a snobbish letter mocking Germans on that subject.
Exactly. His work was the inspiration of a lot of people like Gary Gygax, George Lucas, a lot of bands i enjoy like Led Zeppelin, Rush or Blind Guardian, even Michael Everson when he created the Unicode standard... And i think it's safe to say that what inspired them was not his regressive sociopolitical views.Vitocap wrote: ↑Tue Jun 05, 2018 3:36 amHonor where it is due. There is something that, leaving political questions aside, should definitely be mentioned when speaking of J. R. R. Tolkien: he deserves to be remembered for his contribution to our fantastic imaginary. He is the founding father of modern fantasy fiction and fantasy worldbuilding. Our modern conception of fantasy races such as elves, dwarves, halflings (hobbits), orcs and dragons comes entirely from his works. And he was the inspiration for the creators of Dungeons and Dragons, the first tabletop role-playing game in history -- the game from which all RPGs ever made, regardless of genre or rules or platform, do stem.
As one who loves RPGs, I must say I'm thankful for this.
), people on the side of slavery and on the side of abolition were not just quoting the same books, but the same verses, and it happens with books, movies, even songs, the author means one thing, the readers understand another. I still remember when Eddie Vedder was explaining that the song Alive meant that the kid was feeling cursed, but the fans thought otherwise and "they lifted the curse".
Yeah, even before reading that post, the whole agreement daisy chain and high-fiving each other led me to check your IPs. And, to quote you: "LOLError of Logic wrote: ↑Sat May 26, 2018 3:59 pmIt doesn't surprise me in the least that you adhere to each other's opinion and support each other's agendas.
Mind you, I'm not entirely convinced you're not one individual flailing about with three handles.
" Exacty identical. 
Oh, the irony.Fairy Glade's Fairy wrote: ↑Sun May 27, 2018 3:11 pm... and the funniest part is, description is down pat right: the kid done tripped up, blundered & was found out in the end.
