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46 [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

47 [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

48 [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

49 [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

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

... m puzzled by > the passionate 'no'. I always thought of Tolkien as the godfather of postmodernism. All the formal categories of ... capitalist allegories. Sure, there's plenty to object to in Tolkien -- obnoxious gender and racial stereotypes, etc. But there's also ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Wed Jun 9 13:38:50 PDT 2004

51 [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

52 [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

53 [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

54 [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

55 [lbo-talk] Fall of the Chief Ringwraith -- rank: 199

... re better > than that. I'm sort of partial to Tolkien's subversively Zizekian perspective on evil: when evil (read: a ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Sun May 9 11:50:35 PDT 2004

56 [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

57 [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

58 [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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Date:	Wed Dec 24 16:53:45 PST 2003

59 [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

60 [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