I was recently reading that hard core right and Sociopathic Oligarchs all have a real weird thing for LotR. They give Tolkien names to lots of stuff. The article was very vague about why there is a connection ( I got the feeling that they really didn’t know why it resonates with them), but it is there.
I was recently reading that hard core right and Sociopathic Oligarchs all have a real weird thing for LotR. They give Tolkien names to lots of stuff. The article was very vague about why there is a connection ( I got the feeling that they really didn’t know why it resonates with them), but it is there.
I remember reading that Tolkien wrote a letter or whatever lamenting that those kind of people liked his books.
Nazis have always appropriated culture, since they lack the prerequisite humanity to make art of their own