[lbo-talk] Tolkien and the new medievalism

[Todd Archer]

>Yet primary beliefs invade secondary worlds, and it means that despite the 
>beauty and grandeur of >the pageant, to me the film series The Lord of the 
>Rings stinks like an orc.

Can't wait until the author whacks Dungeons and Dragons as a fun-filled 
reproduction of primitive accumulation and destruction of The Other ie go 
into the dungeon, find the monster, kill the monster, take the treasure, go 
spend it to do the cycle again.

Todd

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