J.R.R. Tokien’s Lord of the Rings is a masterpiece. It’s also been blessed by something that almost never happens with such great books. The three movies did the books justice. From Gregory Hood at unz.com:
Berger, Armand, Tolkien, Europe, and Tradition: From Civilisation to the Dawn of Imagination, Arktos Media Ltd, 2022, 66 pp.
A people without roots is a people without a future, perhaps not a people at all. The trend of “white erasure” in historical films, art, and even documentaries suggests that our rulers know this and are deliberately writing whites out of our own history. This includes even myths and legends. While non-white stories belong to the peoples who spawned them, European stories are either deliberately subverted (“re-imagined”) or become universal tales with equal meaning to everyone. “Cultural appropriation” is a one-way street.
J.R.R. Tolkien and his work is an important battleground, as The Lord of the Rings and his other books win new audiences every generation. Undoubtedly, stories that encourage people to identify with and fight for their people and culture subvert orthodoxy, so, finding anything more than entertainment is dangerous. When Georgia Meloni became Italian prime minister, the New York Times warned that she and other activists see The Lord of the Rings “as not just a series of novels but a sacred text.”
