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The Queen, The Shire, And Amazon’s Absurd Attempt To Commodify Tolkien

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Tolkien and the Postmodern 2022

Tolkien has a lot to say about industrialization of Britain, the industrialization of the West. Tolkien is grappling with this very early onset and Queen Elizabeth again, we're talking about a 96 year old woman that was, you know, Brian has been the queen since Churchill. What did Tolkien himself tell us about why that might be difficult? Why it might be difficult to understand what he's doing.

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