If these people did a modicum of research they’d come across On Fairy Stories, an essay written by Tolkien that essentially is his creative manifesto. Death of the author blah blah blah, like sure you could have a fascist reading of it but the author is really clearly not going for that and really hated the nazis a lot, they shot at his kids as well as what we already know the nazis got up to. He of course also had huge beef with their appropriation of Germanic and Norse mythology to their own ends and considering he had started his work obsessed with the same thing while Hitler was getting gassed in the trenches, he got there first and was better at it. The text itself takes a good bit of effort to make fascist. There’s monarchist elements for damn sure but fascists didn’t invent racism or bloodline based ideas of superiority, they just ran with it in a modern way and that racism and superiority manifests itself in very not fascist ways unless its a villain doing it. And villains are bad.
Fuck the characters who seem to see the world as fading or lesser than it used to be generally have that belief because power was more concentrated both politically and metaphysical. That power has been diffused into the world over those millenia. Just like how Arda is Morgoth’s Ring in a closer to literal sense in that he diminished himself to further influence the world and can’t truly be defeated without also destroying the world. Like…sure the elves aren’t as mighty and the numenorean bloodline is thin, but look where that got the elves and men in the first place. Half a continent and a bigass island sunk into the ocean and 2 attempted wars against the divine. The first against morgoth lasted way longer but never needed to happen in the first place and was for sure a phyrric victory, most of the continent was missing after and the numenoreans decided to fucking attack and dethrone god and that’s after doing widespread settler colonialism and slaughtering the descendants of the same people they came from who fought morgoth and could have gone to numenor but didn’t wanna. Even keeping something like Rivendell or Lothlorien going requires putting a lot of yourself into the world and for Tolkien where immortal beings are ‘part of’ the universe and less distinct from nature than men there’s a bit of themselves that get locked into those works and their maintenance, lord of the rings was low key as hell compared to previous conflicts. So the world was really better off without these mighty kings and warriors. The third age had hobbits and the rest didn’t
If these people did a modicum of research they’d come across On Fairy Stories, an essay written by Tolkien that essentially is his creative manifesto. Death of the author blah blah blah, like sure you could have a fascist reading of it but the author is really clearly not going for that and really hated the nazis a lot, they shot at his kids as well as what we already know the nazis got up to. He of course also had huge beef with their appropriation of Germanic and Norse mythology to their own ends and considering he had started his work obsessed with the same thing while Hitler was getting gassed in the trenches, he got there first and was better at it. The text itself takes a good bit of effort to make fascist. There’s monarchist elements for damn sure but fascists didn’t invent racism or bloodline based ideas of superiority, they just ran with it in a modern way and that racism and superiority manifests itself in very not fascist ways unless its a villain doing it. And villains are bad.
Fuck the characters who seem to see the world as fading or lesser than it used to be generally have that belief because power was more concentrated both politically and metaphysical. That power has been diffused into the world over those millenia. Just like how Arda is Morgoth’s Ring in a closer to literal sense in that he diminished himself to further influence the world and can’t truly be defeated without also destroying the world. Like…sure the elves aren’t as mighty and the numenorean bloodline is thin, but look where that got the elves and men in the first place. Half a continent and a bigass island sunk into the ocean and 2 attempted wars against the divine. The first against morgoth lasted way longer but never needed to happen in the first place and was for sure a phyrric victory, most of the continent was missing after and the numenoreans decided to fucking attack and dethrone god and that’s after doing widespread settler colonialism and slaughtering the descendants of the same people they came from who fought morgoth and could have gone to numenor but didn’t wanna. Even keeping something like Rivendell or Lothlorien going requires putting a lot of yourself into the world and for Tolkien where immortal beings are ‘part of’ the universe and less distinct from nature than men there’s a bit of themselves that get locked into those works and their maintenance, lord of the rings was low key as hell compared to previous conflicts. So the world was really better off without these mighty kings and warriors. The third age had hobbits and the rest didn’t