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

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Tolkien's Moral Imagination

Tolkien and CS Lewis were against industrial capitalism. They saw the implications for all of society once you unleashed mechanised industrial technology onto our farms, on food production in particular. And I think they would argue we have to return to a kind of Christian fellowship that is not based on the idea of a neutral free market. John: We are going to have to go back and interrogate some of our assumptions about free market capitalism.

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