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Yet something much deeper and much more sad is going on here. As I have written before, part of the success of Tolkien’s narrative’s reflects a remythologizing of inherited Christian dynamics in the wake of the second world war, dynamics that in some sense narrativised the second world war itself. Within the appeal of Elves and…

Tolkien isn’t Tolkien Anymore.
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Simon Dillon
Simon Dillon

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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com

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