How Silicon Valley misreads The Lord of the Rings.
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I only briefly skimmed it but my takeaway was:
J.R.R. Tolkien would love for your country to be overrun by invaders, you racist.
I don't think he had enough conviction to go that far. It was more when Tolkien talked about only suitable people should handle dangerous things, he didn't mean rich white dudes. The author really doesn't defend the position all that well.