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1 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 561

... pm, Gar Lipow wrote: > >> novel to film. I know that LOTR is widely hated among serious leftist, >> being dismissed as something ... for reactionaries and hippie types. > > Hmm, I always loved the LOTR multiverse. The contradiction is that Tolkien > was a Rightwing Tory ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 20 15:34:45 PST 2009

2 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 561

... pm, Gar Lipow wrote: > novel to film. I know that LOTR is widely hated among serious leftist, > being dismissed as something ... for reactionaries and hippie types. Hmm, I always loved the LOTR multiverse. The contradiction is that Tolkien was a Rightwing Tory ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 20 14:59:55 PST 2009

3 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 355

... Dead Alive, the other day. Now that was pure genius. LotR would have been better with zombies instead of hobbits, I ...

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Author:	Miles Jackson
Date:	Fri Nov 20 07:42:16 PST 2009

4 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 355

... Dead Alive, the other day. Now that was pure genius. LotR would have been better with zombies instead of hobbits, I ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 20 00:04:26 PST 2009

5 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 824

... Lipow <the.typo.boy at gmail.com>  I know that LOTR is widely hated among serious leftist, being dismissed as something ... can get past the pastoral longing are driven away from LOTR by the endless travel description.,But, to me, the glimpses ...

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6 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 824

I'm with you, Gar. Certainly not crap, whatever problems I have with book or films (and those problems are very different). Catherine -----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of Gar Lipow Sent: Fri 20/11/2009 18:15 To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk ...

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7 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 824

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:31:16AM +1100, Mike Beggs wrote: > Speaking of blowing things up, auteurs, and films related to Peter > Jackson, did anyone see District 9? Definitely the best sci-fi and > action film of the year, and it was both non-Hollywood and had a lot ...

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

8 [lbo-talk] Re: Blaming the lobby -- rank: 355

... s power dissipates (again, echoing Carrol, as the power of LOTR's Saruman - the lesser of that fictional world's evils ...

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9 [lbo-talk] Narnia -- rank: 561

... story that plays no role in the Hobbitt or the LotR, but none of the peoples in the LotR has any religions, priests, churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, or whathaveyou ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue Dec 20 07:38:19 PST 2005

10 [lbo-talk] Reactionary fantasy and leftists (was Narnia) -- rank: 355

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

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11 [lbo-talk] Reactionary fantasy and leftists (was Narnia) -- rank: 355

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

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Date:	Fri Mar 11 18:44:06 PST 2005

12 [lbo-talk] W gloats; Clinton cheerleads -- rank: 355

... noble, old, wise, and kind of scary -- at least in LoTR. --- Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote: > >From: Eric Genrich ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 10 13:55:54 PST 2005

13 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references -- rank: 824

... 2004 at 11:28am Miles Jackson wrote: > > > > Hmm. I consider LOTR one of the most important works of > > fiction in the ... of people in the US that have > read *any* of LOTR is pretty small, like less tahn 10%. No, you're miscontruing my point. I'm not claiming that LOTR is influential, like the Bible; I'm arguing that LOTR reflects many important values and beliefs in our society. --If ...

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Author:	Miles Jackson
Date:	Thu Jun 10 09:37:57 PDT 2004

14 [lbo-talk] "Not another f*cking elf..." -- rank: 355

... WW1 veteran Hugo Dyson, when Tolkein was reading drafts of LotR to his friends. Which was pretty much my feeling about ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 10 00:28:45 PDT 2004

15 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references -- rank: 355

Miles Jackson: > Hmm. I consider LOTR one of the most important > works of fiction in the ...

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