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OH NO NO NO TOLKIENBROS
>J.R.R. Tolkien, famed author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was a man of principle who entertained generations of readers. Now his 27-year-old Jewish great-grandson, Nicholas Tolkien, has written his first play, Terezin, about the Holocaust. On the eve of his play’s opening in New York, Nicholas spoke with Aish.com about what he hopes to achieve – and about his illustrious family.
>Even though Nicholas’ great grandfather J.R.R. Tolkien was not Jewish – he was a devout Catholic – he harbored warm feelings towards Jews and spoke out forcefully against Nazism. J.R.R. Tolkien refused to visit Germany in 1938, and in 1941 he wrote to his son “...I have in this war a burning private grudge...against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler.” Today, Nicholas Tolkien is proud of his illustrious great-grandfather: “He was one of the voices of reason in the British community and was one of Britain’s most pro-Jewish writers.”
>When a German publisher asked J.R.R. Tolkien to prove his Aryan ancestry in order for Lord of the Rings to be translated into German, Tolkien wrote back, “If I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people.”
>In 1971, J.R.R. Tolkien told the BBC that he’d modeled the characters of the Dwarves in Lord of the Rings on the Jewish people. “The dwarves of course are quite obviously, wouldn’t you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic, obviously constructed to be Semitic.” The Dwarves also echoed Jewish life in their intense and unquenchable longing for their native homeland, which seems to many like a conscious reference to Jews’ attachment to the Land of Israel.
But remember guys, tolkien was totally based and redpilled