Tolkien is really, really popular in Europe and Eastern Europe. People love it. And there are some fash strains that like Tolkien because of the monarchism and heroic sacrifice and the race shit they read in to it. I mean, it's not that hard to read race shit in to it if you want to, but it's also really easy to just let Orcs be Orcs and appreciate that the story is about diverse peoples coming together to overcome an evil expansionist empire.
it’s not that hard to read race shit in to it if you want to
tolkein himself did unfortunately:
In a private letter, Tolkien describes orcs as:
squat, broad, flat-nosed, sallow-skinned, with wide mouths and slant eyes: in fact degraded and repulsive versions of the (to Europeans) least lovely Mongol-types."
Tolkien is really, really popular in Europe and Eastern Europe. People love it. And there are some fash strains that like Tolkien because of the monarchism and heroic sacrifice and the race shit they read in to it. I mean, it's not that hard to read race shit in to it if you want to, but it's also really easy to just let Orcs be Orcs and appreciate that the story is about diverse peoples coming together to overcome an evil expansionist empire.
tolkein himself did unfortunately: