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31 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:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 11 13:39:05 PDT 2000

32 Lord of the Rings:A Libertarian Fable or Fascist Agit-Prop? -- rank: 315

... www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/msg11837.html All messages from thread "Tolkien Health Warning" Message 1 in thread From: Alex Nichols (xnichols at hotmail.com) Subject: Tolkien Health Warning Newsgroups: alt.politics.socialism.trotsky http://groups.google ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Dec 26 23:10:40 PST 2001

33 [lbo-talk] Reactionary fantasy and leftists (was Narnia) -- rank: 315

... people who become legend then become myth and then > gods). Tolkien's LOTR being the most po

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Author:	amadeus amadeus
Date:	Fri Mar 11 19:44:20 PST 2005

34 [lbo-talk] release from mordor, please? -- rank: 315

budge wrote: [could you please lose the orcing html -- thanks] ====== Que? All of my messages - outgoing - are 100 percent, grade A certified plain text. No html leaves these firewalled shores. If you're receiving html marked "idoru345" it's being mangled into this unholy format between me and thee. ...and later ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Wed Jun 9 16:33:26 PDT 2004

35 Milton -- rank: 315

... Thursday, March 04, 1999 2:22 PM Subject: RE: Milton >>Tolkien's popularity with hippies in >> the late 60s. > >Well, I ... the Rings, Barkley, but yours is the >first reference to Tolkien I've seen in years. How extensively read is >he ...

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Author:	J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Date:	Thu Mar 4 12:29:15 PST 1999

36 Milton -- rank: 315

... the Rings, Barkley, but yours is the first reference to Tolkien I've seen in years. How extensively read is he ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Thu Mar 4 11:03:51 PST 1999

37 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 315

... those reactionary things that is still worth reading and enjoying.  Tolkien was no Pound, but to me his prose sang. Also ... But, to me, the glimpses of a Middle Earth that Tolkien more than half believed existed more or less as desc

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Nov 20 00:03:03 PST 2009

38 [lbo-talk] Keiretsu Capital -- rank: 315

From: <dredmond at efn.org> > Oh, I was quoting from Tolkien -- the Third Age is the Age of the Rings. Peter > Jackson did an amazing job with that series -- turned Tolkien's conservativizing > parable into New Zealand postcolonial fiction (the hobbits ...

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Author:	Grant Lee
Date:	Sat Jan 10 13:53:16 PST 2004

39 [lbo-talk] Reactionary fantasy and leftists (was Narnia) -- rank: 315

... people who become legend then become myth and then gods). Tolkien's LOTR being the most popular example. Where the ideology ...

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Author:	John Bizwas
Date:	Fri Mar 11 18:44:06 PST 2005

40 politics of lord of rings -- rank: 315

... 1,000-page tome by Britain's J.R.R. >Tolkien as a celebration of their own values of physical strength, >leadership and integrity. IIRC, Tolkien was hardly a liberal democrat. I even seem to recall ...

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Author:	Scott Martens
Date:	Fri Jan 18 12:53:44 PST 2002

41 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 315

... a successful enterprise? ****** It's been awhile since I read Tolkien so I'm going by relatively distant memory. Still, I ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Mon Sep 15 10:20:54 PDT 2003

42 [lbo-talk] Keiretsu Capital -- rank: 315

... fourth age" you mean here. Oh, I was quoting from Tolkien -- the Third Age is the Age of the Rings. Peter Jackson did an amazing job with that series -- turned Tolkien's conservativizing parable into New Zealand postcolonial fiction (the hobbits ...

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Fri Jan 9 20:46:43 PST 2004

43 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 315

Dennis Perrin wrote: >>This particular hobbit has a computer printout above his desk which reads, >>"MORDOR SHALL FALL". >> >>-- DRR >> >> > >I watched the second "Rings" last night, and just couldn't follow it (much >to my daughter's chagrin: "Come on, Dad!"). Could you or anyone here explain >the plot and why ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Mon Sep 15 11:19:01 PDT 2003

44 [lbo-talk] The Importance of Disenfranchising Nader/Camejo Voters -- rank: 315

... militarism, aggression and horror, or does it melt > away, like Tolkien's > Ring. SDF: Two points: 1) Tolkien's ring didn't just "melt away" -- it had to ...

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Author:	Samuel Fassbinder
Date:	Tue Aug 10 14:54:47 PDT 2004

45 [lbo-talk] Re: USA 2003 -- rank: 315

... have been mentioned. That whole anglo catholic/catholic group (Lewis, Tolkien, Sayers, Williams) may or may not have

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Sep 15 17:55:17 PDT 2003