Tolkien and Moral Greyness

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Crusader Kings II
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Crusader Kings II (2012)
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So there's this dumb meme circulating around social media about how "older literature" represented "definite good and evil" and "transcendent virtues," in contrast to modern literature, where "everyone is grey and immoral."

In this video, I'll briefly talk about this idea, and the idea that Lord of the Rings is not "morally grey."

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