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91 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbitreferences -- rank: 199

... necessary to have that knowledge prior to reading the work? (Tolkien was not a manichaean, but the reason Manichaeism is the ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu Jun 10 10:56:23 PDT 2004

92 [lbo-talk] Reading the Ring -- rank: 199

... what Walter Benjamin would've called allegories of monopoly capitalism. Tolkien couldn't know that, any more than Balzac could've ...

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Wed Jun 9 18:49:59 PDT 2004

93 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references -- rank: 199

... our society? "The Bible" isn't just a literary tradition. Tolkien (and fantasy) is. The actual books of the Bible have ...

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Author:	Todd Archer
Date:	Wed Jun 9 14:00:34 PDT 2004

94 [lbo-talk] release from mordor, please? -- rank: 199

"budge" wrote: (yes, i read them multiple times when i was a child. yes, i remember enough to 'get' most of the tortured references. no, the posts with these refs are not very enlightening, informative, or even interesting to read, so i would not bother to read the silly books ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Wed Jun 9 11:29:12 PDT 2004

95 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references -- rank: 199

... of people > > on this list?. I haven't really read Tolkien and doubt I will take the time > > to do so ...

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Author:	snit snat
Date:	Wed Jun 9 09:47:26 PDT 2004

96 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references -- rank: 199

... of people > on this list?. I haven't really read Tolkien and doubt I will take the time > to do so ...

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

97 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references -- rank: 199

... of people on this list?. I haven't really read Tolkien and doubt I will take the time to do so ...

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Author:	John Thornton
Date:	Tue Jun 8 21:01:55 PDT 2004

98 [lbo-talk] Your (nearly totally insane) Ann Coulter moment for the day -- rank: 199

... the precious, yesss... nasty euro-hobbitses, they steals our preciousss..." Tolkien had acute insight into the psychology of Empire). It makes ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Tue Jul 27 17:26:33 PDT 2004

99 [lbo-talk] The Importance of Disenfranchising Nader/Camejo Voters -- rank: 199

... militarism, aggression and horror, or does it melt away, like Tolkien's Ring. I don't exaggerate; the US imports 450 ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Tue Aug 10 14:39:13 PDT 2004

100 [lbo-talk] Foresight -- rank: 199

... t trust your Palantir. It's about time to leave Tolkien to rest in peace. > The enemy is capitalism. Not a ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Aug 6 15:44:45 PDT 2004

101 [lbo-talk] Re: USA 2003 -- rank: 199

Brian Siano wrote: > Man, reading must be an awful chore for you. No joy, no simple story, no mere entertainment-- everything must be scrutinized for its evil political content. No I love reading. It is not a chore, but I do think binary you set up is incorrect: simple pleasure of ...

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Author:	BklynMagus
Date:	Tue Sep 16 08:40:17 PDT 2003

102 [lbo-talk] Re: USA 2003 -- rank: 199

Brian Siano writes: > But I'm sort of fascinated by this effort to read the story, and ferret out some telltale signs or signifiers for unsavory values. It does not take much ferreting out. Tolkein is about as subtle as Kipling. > The Bad Guys are described as "dark?" Hmmmm.... Which happens ...

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Author:	Brian Charles Dauth
Date:	Mon Sep 15 22:59:03 PDT 2003

103 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 199

... rock and roll and the occult. First chapter focuses on Tolkien. -- Michael Pugliese

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Sep 15 18:33:59 PDT 2003

104 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 199

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:25:25 -0700 (PDT), Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Brad DeLong wrote: > >> >one thing not mentioned in this discussion of THE LORD OF THE RINGS >> >is that the bad guys in Tolkein all seem to be dark or ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Mon Sep 15 17:09:46 PDT 2003

105 [lbo-talk] Time To Say Goodbye To Hitch (was, Hitch on Bush) -- rank: 199

... many hearts. It figures that when reality turned into a Tolkien novel, someone had to step into the role of Grimas ...

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Fri Sep 5 21:54:51 PDT 2003