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Conlangery #111: Interview with JS Bangs

Conlangery Podcast

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The Relationship Between Lord of the Rings and the Culture of the Cash

I think that a lot of what always coming home is, is Le Guin's attempt at making it believable and non-boring utopia? Yeah. I'm not sure how utopias are supposed to fix human nature as opposed to organizing a society to minimize avoidable savagery. Right. Robinson plays a lot with those ideas as well and he definitely records. And there's a lot like, yeah, the wind. The wind. Um, so how do you, let me see, how can I ask this question? It is often said, not entirely correctly, that Tolkien wrote Lord of the Rings to provide a culture for his languages. That may be a little over

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