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Article from "The Independent." How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing? (archive.ph)
posted 169 days ago by Mpetey123 169 days ago by Mpetey123 +66 / -0
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– dagthegnome 36 points 169 days ago +36 / -0

Because it was about defending the virtuous and free nations of the West from invasion and conquest by the swarthy races of the east, whose savagery was easily corrupted to serve a greater evil?

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– Kienan 28 points 169 days ago +28 / -0

Because it's good?!

It's not my fault the leftists hate so much of the good stuff. But I'm glad they do. LotR isn't even "based" - at least primarily - but they get bent out of shape and then I can win free Based Points just for liking something I already did.

Just like Frieren. Or various movies, or anime, or entertainers, or music. It always makes me feel warm and fuzzy when I learn that something I like, that is pretty neutral, is hated by the leftists. I feel I must be doing something right, for it to happen so consistently.

It's amazing, they inject so much bullshit into their own propaganda vehicles, and then hate the apolitical stuff for being "far right coded" or whatever. Yeah, no, it's just...normal. GASP.

It's wild, leftists are so good at gatekeeping they even gatekeep themselves sometimes. Yup, LotR is "far right," so fuck off. If you like it you're a midcentury German or something. If only we could weaponize leftist gatekeeping more consistently, so they'd just fuck off and leave all our stuff alone.

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– Modeler43 1 point 169 days ago +1 / -0

I’ll have you know, leftists fucking love lord of the rings. I just did a marathon over new years and leftists I know were creaming their shorts about it.

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– deleted 5 points 169 days ago +5 / -0
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– Modeler43 1 point 169 days ago +1 / -0

Bigger surprise is that people in this thread blindly will believe that leftists hate LOTR when they love it.

Wait, actually, maybe not all that surprising.

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– Mpetey123 [S] 1 point 169 days ago +1 / -0

They like the movies, the article points it out.

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– deleted 2 points 169 days ago +2 / -0
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– Mpetey123 [S] 1 point 169 days ago +1 / -0

Hey do you expect consistency from the liberal MSM?

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– Modeler43 1 point 168 days ago +1 / -0

They also like the books. There's even bits of gatekeeping where you're not a true fan unless you've read the book

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– Mpetey123 [S] 1 point 168 days ago +1 / -0

Argue with the article faggot

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– Modeler43 1 point 168 days ago +1 / -0

I responded to the parent comment of the thread.

I forgot you're the guy who fantasizes about me though. Lol. Write any good fanfics yet?

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... continue reading thread?
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– Belenus 24 points 169 days ago +24 / -0

Because Sam and Frodo were obviously fucking.

Oh wait, no. That's what the retarded bloggers and insane subset of the random think because not only does everything need to be viewed through the lens by sex with those degenerates, but they can't ever believe men can just be friends.

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– chacaloso 13 points 169 days ago +13 / -0

they project their satanic homosexual fantasies on anything that is pure and masculine.

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– Mpetey123 [S] 17 points 169 days ago +17 / -0

Here's the TL:DR of the article. The author's vision was immaterial the moment the story was published. The story belonged to everyone so it can belong to both right and left wingers.

Funny all the talk of media literacy drops off when they know the author disagrees with them.

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– deleted 6 points 169 days ago +6 / -0
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– TallestSkil 16 points 169 days ago +16 / -0

whites good

browns irredeemably bad

objective good triumphs over objective evil

OY VEY WHY WOULD PEOPLE WHO REJECT THE CONCEPT OF RELATIVITY LIKE THIS

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– Maskurbator 12 points 169 days ago +12 / -0

Broadly speaking....

Elves and men and dwarves and hobbits = whites

Saruman = Jew that appears white

Orcs = blacks

Gandalf = Jesus

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– MattTheBlack 2 points 169 days ago +2 / -0

Bruh you need to reread the books

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– Maskurbator 4 points 169 days ago +4 / -0

No. But when I read them that is what I think about. I'm not saying that is what Tolkien intended. But it transfers over almost perfectly. In real life the world of whites is dying because they don't work together and don't fight against common threats. Meanwhile, jews are the ones ushering in non-whites (Orc) to replace the native whites. Just like Saurman looks human but isn't, jews often look white but aren't. And remember that Saruman was supposed to be good, but he got corrupted. So Gandalf was what Saruman was supposed to be; good. Like how the people that call themselves jews were at one point almost like a divide bloodline but then they essentially strayed from God and then a new covenant was made and now the rule is accept Christ. Similarly, but not exactly, Saruman was supposed to be the savior, he fucked up, and then came Gandalf who actually was the savior. And like Christ he came, died, and came back to life.

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– ActiveLurker 12 points 169 days ago +12 / -0

What the fuck, it's literally about the divine right of kings and their mandate to abolish objective evil from their lands, why the hell would you think we WOULDN'T like it?

The Lord of the Rings stopped being Tolkien’s the second he finished writing it, just as it stopped being Jackson’s the second he put his film in the can. It now belongs to all of us.

Yours only insofar as the books on your shelf and your interpretation of them, but what shitlibs like you forget is that you can't kill the author, even when you purposefully ignore him. In this case, Tolkien's ideology is laid bare on the page and no amount of kvetching is going to replace the blatantly Christian themes in the world you're trying to usurp.

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– AgnosticTemplar 11 points 169 days ago +11 / -0

How much you want to bet this same author lambastes rightwingers for liking Verhoeven's Statship Troopers. "you idiots, it was made to make fun of people like you!"

Edit: HOLY SHIT IT'S IN THIS ARTICLE!

So it’s too easy to say that Musk, Meloni, Thiel and Vance simply misunderstand The Lord of the Rings in the same way that some fans failed to realise Starship Troopers (1997) and Fight Club (1999) were satires.

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– daberoniandcheese 4 points 169 days ago +4 / -0

I don't think there's a single person on planet earth that didn't realize Starship Troopers was satire. Lefties love to fellate themselves for grasping basic things like this.

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– Handshook 2 points 168 days ago +2 / -0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

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– ActiveLurker 3 points 169 days ago +3 / -0

It's absolutely beyond parody.

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– CaptainTrouble 8 points 169 days ago +8 / -0

Because elves were elves, dwarves were dwarves, hobbits were hobbits and humans were humans. No disabled black woman pretending to be anything but an orc.

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– ParadigmShift2070 8 points 169 days ago +8 / -0

All the diversity on the evil side

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– 70thLike 7 points 169 days ago +7 / -0

I'm sure some people enjoy movies and shows that aren't aggressively pushing far left ideology into every possible second of them.

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– JiggsawCalrissian 5 points 169 days ago +5 / -0

Because its about defeating evil instead of finding excuses to fellate evil

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– Deceitful_Fox 5 points 169 days ago +5 / -0

Because it speaks to eternal truths, like all great stories.

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– RoulerBleu 3 points 169 days ago +3 / -0

I read Lord of the Rings in highschool on recommendation from a substitute teacher.

It's an amasing book despite some tediouly detailed parts ( you get treated to an introduction to Hobbit genealogy ).

The movie trilogy was as based as still allowed to be when it was filmed, so I appreciate it despite its flaws.

The Hobbit movie trilogy went full retard in the background and sometimes the foreground ( made-up blacks and brown background characters, a made-up elf girlboss lusting after a dwarf. )

Intersectional commies hate beauty, honor to your own kind, and homogenous countries. Lord of the Rings features all that in a good light.

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– deleted 2 points 169 days ago +2 / -0

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