Tolkien Society Goes Woke, 'Finds' Transgenderism, 'Antiracism,' and Queer-ness in The Lord of The Rings

pjmedia.com ^ | 6/30/2021 | Tyler O'Neil

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[KarlInOhio]

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

[FormerFRLurker]

Tolkien is turning in his grave.

[Trillian]

I’m surprised they haven’t made a porno called lord of the o rings. They find perversion in everything because their minds are perverse.

[fella]

To paraphrase an old saying,

People see only what they want to see and ignore all the rest.

Their projections define themselves and not Tolkin.

[Louis Foxwell]

Tolkein and C.S.Lewis were both devout Christians who met and worked together on a number of projects iintended to bring Christianity into the daily life at Oxford University. Whilethere has been speculation that there was conflict between thetwo based on Anglican vs Roman theology, no rift between the two was ever discernible. In fact, upon Lewis; death Tolkein remarked that he felt the loss of his friend deeply. Both wrote Christian literature with deliberation. Both abhored the very fascination with themes of immorality being popularized today in Tolkein’s work.

[Antoninus]

Exactly. J. R. R. Tolkien was a Catholic. You are allowed to say it. He certainly wasn't ashamed of it:

Tolkien in a letter dated December 2, 1953 writes:

“The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revisions. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like ‘religion,’ to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism. However that is very clumsily put, and sounds more self-important than I feel. For as a matter of fact, I have consciously planned very little and should chiefly be grateful for having been brought up (since I was eight) in a Faith that has nourished me and taught me all the little that I know . . . ” (Letter 142).