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

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Tolkien Weeps at What the World Has Been

Tolkien would weep at what the world has become. And if we understood better, what he understood, then we would weep too, I think. Because they've been corrupted by power. Tolkien understood the industrial minds that to reject all that in favor of a cold, scientific mindset That saw the world only as material to be manipulated for the sake of wielding and exercising and accumulating power.

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