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2021-06-20 -Great Cultural Revolution

In An Affront To Its Namesake, The Tolkien Society Goes Woke

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Posted by Bill the Weasel5085 2021-06-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Color me Plebian, I appreciate the writing, the structuring and the imagination, but I never really got the point of elevating such literature to anything beyond clean entertainment.

When fantasy becomes a high enough intellectual precipice for christian society, and people are presenting academic papers on 'Dwarf-Elf relations', reality blindness and madness are not far.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-06-20 07:53|| 2021-06-20 07:53|| Front Page Top

#2 I seldom tire of reading concepts, ideas, differing insight and opinions. Not much for 'alternative histories.' Perhaps that points to a contradiction.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-20 08:08|| 2021-06-20 08:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Alternate histories are good when there's a point to be made, I guess. Like 'be thankful for this here mess, it could be worse'. It's the fantastic utopias of far out fiction I just fail to see. And way unlikely causalities, things that could not possibly happen given how it's going.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-06-20 08:17|| 2021-06-20 08:17|| Front Page Top

#4 an annual academic conference

Attended and sponsored by...academics.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-06-20 14:42|| 2021-06-20 14:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Like "Classic" Rock & Roll the academic's need to nitpick minutiae astounds

Posted by magpie 2021-06-20 18:50|| 2021-06-20 18:50|| Front Page Top

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