podcast friday - tolkien the anarchist

[frandroid]

I have a confession to make. I have never read LOTR. Not read any Tolkien. Even F who doesn't read fantasy or SF has read LOTR or maybe The Hobbit. (In school for English lit., but still). I've watched the trilogy so I'm not a total ignoramus. Anyway the radical perspective I've heard about LOTR is that it's fundamentally Monarchist. And here while I was looking up Andrewism (which Aaron Bushnell was boosting) I found this podcast named Everyday Anarchism. It's hosted by a WASP dude who very much speaks in that WASPy voice that many such podcasts have. The first couple episodes was lacklustre, but I've enjoyed this third one on how LOTR and Tolkien were fundamentally anarchist. It would be interesting to hear a debate, though maybe if I had read the books... :P

https://pod.link/1585390166

Comments

[warriorsavant]

Can't see it as especially fascist or anarchist. Definitely some religiousness.\ Maybe monarchist, as there is the plot of "restoring the TRUE king" (like real peasants actually cared who was taxing them).