Right, I should make it clear that I don't feel like LotR or Tolkien more broadly have nothing good to be said about them, just that there are a bunch of reactionaries who see LotR's inherent fantasy lookism and binary semi-Christian morality as last bastions of their lame reactionary worldview.
At the end of the day it's (as always) a bunch of boring culture war fought within the medium of people's treats of choice in an economic environment that structurally divorces people in it from the consequences of their political reality.
I should make it clear that I don't feel like LotR or Tolkien more broadly have nothing good to be said about them,
For sure, i don't want to make it sound like their aren't problematic things or things that shouldn't be critiqued. I have a lot of problems with it, and i get that reactionaries see what they see in it
Right, I should make it clear that I don't feel like LotR or Tolkien more broadly have nothing good to be said about them, just that there are a bunch of reactionaries who see LotR's inherent fantasy lookism and binary semi-Christian morality as last bastions of their lame reactionary worldview.
At the end of the day it's (as always) a bunch of boring culture war fought within the medium of people's treats of choice in an economic environment that structurally divorces people in it from the consequences of their political reality.
For sure, i don't want to make it sound like their aren't problematic things or things that shouldn't be critiqued. I have a lot of problems with it, and i get that reactionaries see what they see in it