The Shire, a pastoral Garden of Eden kept in a medieval-communal state where the biggest worry is how much food your friend is going to eat when they come for a visit to get high and drunk.
Mordor, an advanced state using all kinds of witchery like gunpowder and mechanical engineering, looks like hell filled with ash and dust like a factory might.
The grandaddy of the fantasy genre, Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings, is so old it’s an allegory for the evils of the Industrial Revolution.
George MacDonald/HG Wells/William Morris erasure!!!
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The Shire, a pastoral Garden of Eden kept in a medieval-communal state where the biggest worry is how much food your friend is going to eat when they come for a visit to get high and drunk.
Mordor, an advanced state using all kinds of witchery like gunpowder and mechanical engineering, looks like hell filled with ash and dust like a factory might.
i wonder what he meant by this![emoji thinking-about-it thinking-about-it](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/e2f95486-0fe2-4d5b-8070-19e21bbc984e.png)
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Tolkien’s dead, he’s locked in my basement - Barthes
An early draft of The Fall of Gondolin featured orcs in mechanized tanks.
Tolkien creating Warhammer before Warhammer.