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naruthandir · 1 year ago

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"Likening Italy to Númenor" Ok who's gonna tell her.

Pretty good article shared on twitter by a Tolkien academic I follow that, whilst short, is excellent at introducing people to the indelible connections white supremacists have to the Lord of the Rings. This exert here is literally what I've been trying to explain for years.

#I agree with this as a Tolkien fan myself btw #I personally like to take the environmentalist anti capitalist route but if you make a right wing reading #I can't even tell you you are wrong cuz the elements are clearly there for you to take and run with them #Likening Italy to Númenor is so funny. You do know it's basically Atlantis right?#Like. The point is that Númenorians were doomed by their hubris and their blind loyalty to an egotistical maniac #That used fake promises and a cultish religion to manipulate people #Like is THIS what you think Italy is like? What it should be like?#Númenor as a colonising force and an isolationist state was doomed to fail. It is in the text.#However mighty and noble they were in the beginning they were always susceptible to evil #By the nature of what they built

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