• @Mzuark
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    242 years ago

    Tolkien was fucking huge on monarchies. Despite writing multiple parts in his stories where someone having absolute power was also potrayed as a bad thing, he never seemed to put 1 and 2 together.

    • @panic
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      212 years ago

      The original anarcho-monarchist

      • JucheBot1988
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        182 years ago

        He actually said as much in a letter to his son: “the older I become, the more I find myself drawn to anarchism, that is, unconstitutional monarchy.”

    • DankZedong A
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      2 years ago

      It wasn’t problematic for Aryan-like white people to have a monarchy. Just the orcs, the dwarfs etc. who all happened to come from the barbaric east.

      • @Mzuark
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        112 years ago

        Remember how every Elf who did evil things was explicitly stated to be “dark” somehow? Whether it was hair, skin or just their “general look”?