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1 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 1000

... from red ruin. Yet, percisely because of his religous beliefs, Tolkien was way of Nazism, with its mixture of neo-paganism and racial pseudo-science. So one way to describe Tolkien is to say he was a fascist, but not a ...

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Author:	Jeet Heer
Date:	Mon Sep 15 16:41:34 PDT 2003

2 Tolkien: Yankee fascist gay pedophiliac muscle-bound stoner ... -- rank: 780

... Campo+Hobbit+&spell=1 http://www.google.com/search?q=Tolkien+fascist+ http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Tolkien+fascist+&hl=en&sa=N&tab=wg Huh, Heh, Hmm... Re: Tolkien: Yankee fascist gay pedophiliac muscle-bound stoner ... news:7jskqi$191 ... of muck we've discovered about the Master ... alt.fan.tolkien - 12 Jun 1999 by Conrad Dunkerson http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Tolkien+trotsky+&hl=en http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin ... format=short&config= marxism_lists_panix_com&restrict=&exclude=&words=Tolkien

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Jan 18 16:16:58 PST 2002

3 Wagner/Tolkien -- rank: 716

... between that tale and the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien, _The Lord of the Rings_, which I am noting once ... daughter. I understand that this parallelism was pointed out to Tolkien, but that he firmly rejected the idea of either any ... influence, although there certainly was an indirect one in that Tolkien was heavily influenced by a variety of medieval epics and ...

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Author:	Rosser Jr, John Barkley
Date:	Sat Dec 12 10:00:20 PST 1998

4 [lbo-talk] Tolkien and the new medievalism -- rank: 690

... debates/article-1-67-1653.jsp > K.A. Dilday wrote: > Tolkien’s physical descriptions are spare and therefore liberating for a ... so people must be. By no means. Jackson cleverly deleted Tolkien's egregiously reactionary gender ideologies -- his orcs are nonhuman demons ...

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Tue Dec 23 15:54:30 PST 2003

5 Wagner/Tolkien -- rank: 690

... between that tale and the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien, _The > Lord of the Rings_, I always considered Tolkien to be the godfather of British postmodernism. The thing is ...

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

6 Tolkien on death penalty -- rank: 664

... of _The Lord of the Rings_ by J.R.R. Tolkien: Frodo (hobbit and Ringbearer about the murderous creature, Gollum): "He ...

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

7 [lbo-talk] Tolkien and the new medievalism -- rank: 664

... www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-1-67-1653.jsp ============== Poor Tolkien. Literary types dismiss him as anti-modern even though the ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Tue Dec 23 17:38:49 PST 2003

8 [lbo-talk] Tolkien and the new medievalism -- rank: 664

... you might find this article we just published > interesting, on Tolkien and the 'new medievalism': > http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Tue Dec 23 09:08:31 PST 2003

9 [lbo-talk] Tolkien and the new medievalism -- rank: 664

... you might find this article we just published interesting, on Tolkien and the 'new medievalism': http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article ...

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

10 Wagner/Tolkien -- rank: 664

You can learn a lot about Tolkien in a fascinating book, Cantor, Norman F. 1991. Inventing the ...

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Author:	Michael Perelman
Date:	Sat Dec 12 12:48:06 PST 1998

11 [lbo-talk] Tolkien and the new medievalism -- rank: 632

At 10:38 AM -0800 23/12/03, Michael Pugliese wrote: > Lionel Trilling in, "The Liberal Imaginstion, " quotes this from >Comrade Lenin. > > "I know of nothing more beautiful than the Appassionata, I could >hear it every day. It is marvellous, unearthly music. Every time I >hear these notes, I think with ...

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Author:	kjkhoo at pro.SoftHome.net
Date:	Wed Dec 24 16:53:45 PST 2003

12 [lbo-talk] Tolkien and the new medievalism -- rank: 632

Brian Siano wrote: >I have a question. Why is it that every major cultural event, or >fad, or persona must be examined for political significance.... and >almost always found to indicate a resurgence of conservative, >tribal, or otherwise regressive beliefs? (Except Madonna and _Queer >Eye_. They're _transgressive!_) Queer Eye isn ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 23 09:15:09 PST 2003

13 [lbo-talk] Tolkien and the new medievalism -- rank: 632

>Yet primary beliefs invade secondary worlds, and it means that despite the >beauty and grandeur of >the pageant, to me the film series The Lord of the >Rings stinks like an orc. Can't wait until the author whacks Dungeons and Dragons as a fun-filled reproduction of primitive accumulation ...

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Author:	Todd Archer
Date:	Tue Dec 23 11:13:31 PST 2003

14 [lbo-talk] Tolkien and the new medievalism -- rank: 632

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 12:08:31 -0500, Brian Siano <siano at mail.med.upenn.edu> wrote: > I have a question. Why is it that every major cultural event, or fad, or > persona must be examined for political significance.... and almost always > found to indicate a resurgence of conservative, tribal ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue Dec 23 10:38:51 PST 2003

15 politics of lord of rings -- rank: 598

... the far right -- neo-fascists, really -- in Italy have appropriated Tolkien. A while back, someone send in some links to discussions ... still have those links? Thanks, Jeet <B>BC-LIFE-ITALY-TOLKIEN<P> <B>Italy right seizes on "Lord of the Rings ... 1,000-page tome by Britain's J.R.R. Tolkien as a celebration of their own values of physical strength ...

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Author:	Heer, Jeet
Date:	Fri Jan 18 12:29:02 PST 2002