Seriously. Reading this shit has me almost in tears. This is not the future we fought for. People should not live like this.

        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Reading the Silmarillion section about Numenor really puts his anticolonial outlook to the fore.

            • Mardoniush [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              Yeah, it is standard agrarian socialism takes. But on the other hand the Hobbits, his "ideal" people are a multiracial alliance under more or less anarchist governance albiet with a vestgial gentry.

              Does Bilbo have tenants? We never hear about him owning anything but the house.