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What would've JRR Tolkien said if you'd told him that his works would become the equivalent of Norse mythology and Wagner to a new and even more embarrassing generation of Nazis (hexbear.net)
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Like if you'd told him that some turbodweeb would name his automated gestapo machine Palantir without a shred of irony, or some other dweeb naming a weapons company Anduril

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[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 15 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, there's the evil tree (or an ent who became a tree, or a tree becoming an ent) in the Old Forest. There's evil even in the greatest strong hold of good like Bombadil's realm.

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