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warren xe/xemvon (esvrld@normal.style)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 02:02:36 JST warren xe/xemvon
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1. [The orcs in LOTR are representations] of the English industrial proletariat, whose ‘degeneration’ along racialised lines was feared by eugenicists of the time: workers in the “mills” of Sauron and Saruman, inhabitants of the Black Country ‐like Mordor with its “scag heaps” and “foul sumps”. As seemingly the only inhabitants of Middle‐Earth who perform any labour, they represent what the aristocratic construction of its histories must, by design and not oversight, elide: the working class that is absent in gentry‐only Shire and in Eriador depopulated by war and plague. In the orcs, the evils of industrial modernity, which Tolkien’s thematic opposes with idyllic agrarian life in the hobbits and romantic celebrations of nature in the elves, are transposed onto the bodies of its victims: industrial workers and the working‐class soldiers serving and dying in the World War which gave Tolkien the prototype of Morgoth, Sauron, and Saruman’s war machines.
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  Dottore Chi (selfsame@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 02:02:37 JST Dottore Chi
  
  (generating a take) Lord of the Rings is an allegory for eco fascism
  
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