INSANE Anti-SJW BACKLASH to Rings of Power and Why the Far-Right have ALWAYS Loved Tolkien and LOTR
Amazon’s Rings of Power has recently debuted to massive viewership and decent reviews. The show tells a prequel story to the Lord of the Rings focusing on how the rings were created and how Sauron rose to power.
Conservatives had it out for this show for a long time due to it having a diverse cast for its elves and dwarfs. Many have said that it spits in the face of Tolkien’s legacy. Many liberals have leapt to its defence painting Tolkien as a liberal progressive who hated bigotry.
While the backlash is ridiculous, painting Tolkien as some sort of liberal is equally absurd. Tolkien was a traditionalist Catholic monarchist, he hated socialism and support Franco in the 1930s. He constantly rejected any leftist reading of the Lord of the Rings by left wing university students in the 1960s.
In this video we discuss the backlash and Tolkien’s actual legacy.
.00:00:00 - Intro
00:03:30 - My thoughts on the Rings of Power
00:06:41 - The Anti-SJW Backlash to Rings of Power
00:10:00 - Why Liberals should stop Pretending Tolkien was a Liberal
00:16:30 - How Tolkien's Own View on Politics influenced LOTR
00:23:30 - Tolkien and the Spanish Civil War
00:26:50 - Why Tolkien has always appealed to reactionaries
00:32:00 - Closing Thoughts
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