Drstrange2love@lemmygrad.ml to GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml · 2 years agoFantasy fiction is pro monarchies.lemmygrad.mlimagemessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down11
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minus-squareMzuark@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoTolkien was fucking huge on monarchies. Despite writing multiple parts in his stories where someone having absolute power was also potrayed as a bad thing, he never seemed to put 1 and 2 together.
minus-squareJucheBot1988@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoHe actually said as much in a letter to his son: “the older I become, the more I find myself drawn to anarchism, that is, unconstitutional monarchy.”
minus-squareDankZedong @lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 years agoIt wasn’t problematic for Aryan-like white people to have a monarchy. Just the orcs, the dwarfs etc. who all happened to come from the barbaric east.
minus-squareMzuark@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoRemember how every Elf who did evil things was explicitly stated to be “dark” somehow? Whether it was hair, skin or just their “general look”?
Tolkien was fucking huge on monarchies. Despite writing multiple parts in his stories where someone having absolute power was also potrayed as a bad thing, he never seemed to put 1 and 2 together.
The original anarcho-monarchist
He actually said as much in a letter to his son: “the older I become, the more I find myself drawn to anarchism, that is, unconstitutional monarchy.”
It wasn’t problematic for Aryan-like white people to have a monarchy. Just the orcs, the dwarfs etc. who all happened to come from the barbaric east.
Remember how every Elf who did evil things was explicitly stated to be “dark” somehow? Whether it was hair, skin or just their “general look”?