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76 [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

77 [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

78 [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

79 [lbo-talk] Re: Art is Dead -- rank: 199

... capabilities of the rendering farms created by WETA for the Tolkien films. Are we rendering the tree or the landscape as ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Sat Aug 23 20:18:53 PDT 2003

80 [lbo-talk] Re: The Latest Theory Is That Theory Doesn't Matter -- rank: 199

... inquiry is, >why does a text written in 1947 by Tolkien, a politically reactionary but >philologically gifted scion of Brit academia ...

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Author:	JBrown72073 at cs.com
Date:	Tue Apr 22 22:08:14 PDT 2003

81 [lbo-talk] Re: The Latest Theory Is That Theory Doesn't Matter -- rank: 199

... inquiry is, why does a text written in 1947 by Tolkien, a politically reactionary but philologically gifted scion of Brit academia ...

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Author:	Dennis Robert Redmond
Date:	Tue Apr 22 19:50:05 PDT 2003

82 Storm of Mordor -- rank: 315

... know some truly fucked-up shit is going down when Tolkien novels are suddenly *realistic*: "Return of the King", JRR Tolkien, pg 783-784: Flinging on some clothes, Merry looked outside ...

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Author:	Dennis Robert Redmond
Date:	Tue Mar 18 18:17:53 PST 2003

83 NY Times: Norman Brown, Playful Philosopher, 89, Is Dead -- rank: 199

... joined David Riesman's ``Lonely Crowd'' and J.R.R. Tolkien's ``Lord of the Rings'' on the reading lists of ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Fri Oct 4 06:30:21 PDT 2002

84 fantasy ideology (was 'Sandton') -- rank: 199

... goes seemlessly from quasi-political >manifesto to a recount of Tolkien, as a direct justification of the >relevance >of the latter ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 7 15:58:21 PDT 2002

85 fantasy ideology (was 'Sandton') -- rank: 199

... goes seemlessly from quasi-political manifesto to a recount of Tolkien, as a direct justification of the relevance of the latter ...

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Author:	Dddddd0814 at aol.com
Date:	Sat Sep 7 14:00:31 PDT 2002

86 Quit Making Fake Moves -- rank: 199

Some geek names Michael Moynihan has written a book called, "Lords of Chaos, " on those Scandanavian neo-nazi metal heads. Somewhere I read an interview with Moynihan where he claims only an aesthetic or academic interest in nazi themes but, I have my doubts. The Deeswatch website below, is a far ...

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Author:	michael pugliese
Date:	Sun Mar 10 08:54:09 PST 2002

87 Tolkien: Yankee fascist gay pedophiliac muscle-bound stoner ... -- rank: 780

... Campo+Hobbit+&spell=1 http://www.google.com/search?q=Tolkien+fascist+ http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Tolkien+fascist+&hl=en&sa=N&tab=wg Huh, Heh, Hmm... Re: Tolkien: Yankee fascist gay pedophiliac muscle-bound stoner ... news:7jskqi$191 ... of muck we've discovered about the Master ... alt.fan.tolkien - 12 Jun 1999 by Conrad Dunkerson http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Tolkien+trotsky+&hl=en http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin ... format=short&config= marxism_lists_panix_com&restrict=&exclude=&words=Tolkien

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Jan 18 16:16:58 PST 2002

88 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

89 politics of lord of rings -- rank: 598

... the far right -- neo-fascists, really -- in Italy have appropriated Tolkien. A while back, someone send in some links to discussions ... still have those links? Thanks, Jeet <B>BC-LIFE-ITALY-TOLKIEN<P> <B>Italy right seizes on "Lord of the Rings ... 1,000-page tome by Britain's J.R.R. Tolkien as a celebration of their own values of physical strength ...

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Author:	Heer, Jeet
Date:	Fri Jan 18 12:29:02 PST 2002

90 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