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16 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 598

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > Someone, I think one of Tokien's friends, claimed the background was WW > 1. > > He himself always denied hotly that the work was allegorical. But one > passage near the end sort of confuses things. The ...

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Author:	Gar Lipow
Date:	Fri Nov 20 19:32:13 PST 2009

17 [lbo-talk] Lord of the Rings musical in London -- rank: 517

... 5 million pound theatrical extravaganza. The stage adaptation of JRR Tolkien's fantasy saga officially opened on Tuesday night with actors ... at recreating Middle Earth. The $25 million show based on Tolkien's literary trilogy about a Hobbit named Frodo and his ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 27 15:56:06 PDT 2007

18 Lord of the Rings:A Libertarian Fable or Fascist Agit-Prop? -- rank: 517

... be done so well. Haven't seen the flick, but Tolkien is sort of the godfather of Brit postmodernism, i.e. the text is far more radical than the author. Tolkien was so conservative, he ended up being progressive, is another ... the Dead Marshes is one, a moment clearly based on Tolkien's own biographical experience of WW I trench war -- where Tolkien becomes painfully self-aware of the horrors of capitalist imperialism. I've often thought that the Brits had Tolkien where the US had E.E. Doc Smith; both sort ...

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Author:	Dennis Robert Redmond
Date:	Thu Dec 27 13:54:31 PST 2001

19 Bullshit On Evil -- rank: 517

... hobbits now A new film based on J.R.R. Tolkien's world is a perfect metaphor for the situation at ... the Rings trilogy. The mythic landscape of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy epic, where a coalition of hobbits, men, dwarves ...

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Author:	Todd Archer
Date:	Fri Sep 28 11:16:43 PDT 2001

20 Death Penalty -- rank: 517

... ll combine another issue on here, namely about the Milton/Tolkien thread. The link between the two shows up in the much less widely read _Silmarillion_, published in 1977 after Tolkien's death with editing by one of his sons, not the more popular _Lord of the Rings_. Tolkien does a plain-out steal of _Paradise Lost_ which annoys ... apologize. Carrol and I have both read a lot of Tolkien and have discussed various aspects of his work at some ...

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Author:	J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Date:	Thu Mar 4 12:58:25 PST 1999

21 [lbo-talk] Re: Marketing the Chronicles of Narnia -- rank: 462

... my recommendations, let me say here I prefer Lewis to Tolkien (or Harry Potter for that matter). I think Lewis is ... Milton?). Christians see the danger, too, in some aspects of Tolkien, but I suppose its more his use of Indo-European ...

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Author:	John Bizwas
Date:	Thu Mar 10 21:25:53 PST 2005

22 Death Penalty -- rank: 462

... the much less widely read _Silmarillion_, published in 1977 > after Tolkien's death with editing by one of his sons, not the more popular > _Lord of the Rings_. Tolkien does a plain-out steal of _Paradise Lost_ > which annoys ... Silmarillion", incidentally, dates back to WW I, I think, where Tolkien served in the BEF in France, so it's more ... a weird mix of Biblical thunder and Middle English wordplay. Tolkien apparently was deeply affected by the nightmaris

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Author:	Dennis R Redmond
Date:	Thu Mar 4 15:51:02 PST 1999

23 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references -- rank: 462

... largest city in the US. INTD 1015 J.R.R.Tolkien and the Theology of Middle Earth Course Reference Number: 10205 ... and discuss the Middle Earth fiction of J.R.R.Tolkien as well as several essays by and about the late ... Particular attention will be given to the manner in which Tolkien's theology and philosophy are conveyed through his fantasy literature. Sample topics include: how do ideas expressed in Tolkien's famous essay, On Fairy-Stories find expression in fiction ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Jun 10 01:38:11 PDT 2004

24 Milton -- rank: 398

... to alte my remarks about the Paradise Lost parallel in Tolkien's work (Carrol and I have been discussing this mostly ... Protestant bourgeois capitalist against the anti-industrial feudal Catholicism of Tolkien's Paradise. In "The Music of the Ainur" Melkor's ... building ugly factories. This "green" aspect was one part of Tolkien's popularity with hippies in the late 60s. Barkley Rosser ...

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Author:	J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Date:	Thu Mar 4 10:47:59 PST 1999

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

... included in that. Lord of the Rings was written by Tolkien as a single work, and broken up into separate books ...

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Author:	Gar Lipow
Date:	Thu Nov 19 23:15:03 PST 2009

26 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 398

... 2003 15:09:53 -0700, <dredmond at efn.org> wrote: > Tolkien's trilogy is full of the most obnoxious sexism, racism ... out the seismic clash > of WW II in allegorical terms, Tolkien redeems himself -- he taps into > the post-WW II wave ... that he ever realized or could know this, > of course). Tolkien himself was utterly opposed to reading any kind of analogy ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Mon Sep 15 16:52:38 PDT 2003

27 [lbo-talk] The Importance of Disenfranchising Nader/Camejo Voters -- rank: 398

> 1) Tolkien's ring didn't just "melt away" -- it had to ... against itself. One of the reasons I keep harping on Tolkien (to the dismay of some on this list) is that ... the fires of collective mobilization. That's the limit of Tolkien's narrative, of course - he can't really imagine what ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Wed Aug 11 02:49:51 PDT 2004

28 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 398

... LORD OF THE RINGS is that > the bad guys in Tolkien all seem to be dark or "swarthy," while the good guys > are light or "fair." Tolkien's trilogy is full of the most obnoxious sexism, racism ... out the seismic clash of WW II in allegorical terms, Tolkien redeems himself -- he taps into the post-WW II wave ...

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Mon Sep 15 15:09:53 PDT 2003

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

... included in that. Lord of the Rings was written by Tolkien as a single work, and broken up into separate books ...

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Author:	Catherine Driscoll
Date:	Thu Nov 19 23:30:56 PST 2009

30 Bloom: Harry Potter is stupid crap; NYT is "counterculture" -- rank: 398

... go on, doubtless for some time, as J.R.R. Tolkien did, and then wane. The official newspaper of our dominant ...

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Author:	Steve Perry
Date:	Wed Jul 12 00:46:16 PDT 2000