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106 [lbo-talk] Golden age of satire? -- rank: 425

Carl Remick wrote: > At this point, the Lord of the Rings itself makes me cringe. But as for > morality, I favor ... right = evil; left = good. A moral schemata taken... right out of Tolkien's playbook. The Left has to push beyond ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Sat Oct 16 13:40:40 PDT 2004

107 [lbo-talk] More on why movies suck -- rank: 425

Anyone can see that Lord of the Rings is a Heideggero-Facistic metaphor, the They of the Orcs, the lost authenticity of the Shire, the ...

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Author:	heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Date:	Fri Nov 20 06:04:57 PST 2009

108 [lbo-talk] Tolkien and the new medievalism -- rank: 425

... http://www.cas.usf.edu/communication/rodman/cultstud/> In light of the discussion on the discussion of Lord of the Rings I thought some of you might find ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 23 08:35:21 PST 2003

109 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references -- rank: 419

Miles Jackson wrote: >Reading Lord of the Rings is kinda like reading the Bible (I'm serious!). >Even if you're not into it, you need to read it to understand the culture >of our society. I've read The Bible. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 9 10:21:39 PDT 2004

110 Heartfield the troll -- rank: 410

... From: Chris Kromm > James, > You appear to be willfully ignorant of over 30 years of radical > environmental activism and scholarship ... I can give you a reading list if if would be helpful. Is *The Lord of the Rings* one of your central texts?

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Author:	Grinker
Date:	Fri Apr 6 12:14:36 PDT 2001

111 Wagner/Tolkien -- rank: 404

... 12 Dec 1998, Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote: > In light of Louis Proyect's message about Wagner's > _Der Ring des Niebelungen_, I would note the deep parallels > between that tale and the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien, _The > Lord of the Rings_, I always considered Tolkien to be the ...

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Author:	Dennis R Redmond
Date:	Sat Dec 12 20:54:37 PST 1998

112 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references -- rank: 398

... John Thornton wrote: > > >Capitalists can be bargained with. Ringwraiths cannot. The Kerry campaign > >is the feint drawing out the oil-orcs from their fastness in Barad-dur. > >Anything to keep $auron's eye from a tiny pair of Eurohobbits... > > > >-- DRR > > Are these elf related analogies really understood by the majority of people > on this list?. I haven't really read ...

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Author:	Miles Jackson
Date:	Wed Jun 9 09:35:02 PDT 2004

113 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 398

... Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote: > He made a number of movies before that. Check out Meet the Feebles and Bad > Taste. Now that's filmmaking! I think Bad Taste was the first R-rated movie I saw as a kid thanks to someone's older brother (either that or Revenge of the Nerds). We loved it then and I haven't seen it since. I grew up in Wellington along with the Peter Jackson movies and he was probably about the ...

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Author:	Mike Beggs
Date:	Fri Nov 20 17:14:54 PST 2009

114 [lbo-talk] Golden age of satire? -- rank: 395

... dredmond at efn.org> > >Carl Remick wrote: > > > At this point, the Lord of the Rings itself makes me cringe. But as for > > morality, I favor ... right = evil; left = good. > >A moral schemata taken... right out of Tolkien's playbook. ... Fine. I'll rip off JRRT' ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Sat Oct 16 17:56:04 PDT 2004

115 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 379

>one thing not mentioned in this discussion of THE LORD OF THE RINGS >is that the bad guys in Tolkein all seem ...

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Author:	Brad DeLong
Date:	Mon Sep 15 14:35:55 PDT 2003

116 [lbo-talk] Bush: Perfect Kids' Villain - Pullman -- rank: 376

... Bush would make a perfect villain in his epic sagas of good and evil. "He would fit right in," said the British author of the trilogy "His Dark Materials" which now looks set to follow in the cinematic footsteps of Harry Potter and The Lord of The Rings as ...

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Author:	Todd Archer
Date:	Sat Nov 6 11:02:05 PST 2004

117 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 370

> >one thing not mentioned in this discussion of THE LORD OF THE RINGS > >is that the bad guys in Tolkein all seem ...

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Author:	Devine, James
Date:	Mon Sep 15 15:02:53 PDT 2003

118 [lbo-talk] release from mordor, please? -- rank: 370

... into Shrek-ese or Finding Nemo-ese? Not everyone on > >the list knows Tolkein code. > > :-) > > OMIGAWD!! Ian! Haven't you read Lord of the Rings??!! he's probably over 17 years old, why would he ... was a child. yes, i remember enough to 'get' most of the tortured references. no, the posts with these refs ...

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Author:	budge
Date:	Wed Jun 9 10:42:26 PDT 2004

119 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 364

Speaking of Peter Jackson, I saw his first movie, Dead Alive, the other day. Now that was pure genius. LotR would have been better with zombies instead of hobbits, I'll tell you that.   ----- Original Message ---- From: Gar Lipow <the.typo.boy at gmail.com> Also speaking of Peter Jackson, the whole "series, sequels and remakes"  complaint reveals its triteness ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Nov 20 00:04:26 PST 2009

120 Tolkien on death penalty -- rank: 364

>From Chapter 2 of _The Fellowship of the Ring_, Part 1 of _The Lord of the Rings_ by J.R.R. Tolkien: ...

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Author:	J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Date:	Mon Mar 22 09:32:28 PST 1999