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[Anonymous No.14178216]

Why does everyone here say Tolkien is right-wing, anyway?

[Anonymous No.14178221]

>>14178216
He was Catholic and a nerd of European mythos.

[Anonymous No.14178224]

>>14178216
Because according to leftcucks when you like traditional stuff you're automatically right-wing.

[Anonymous No.14178226]

traditionalist christian == nazi

[Anonymous No.14178276]

>>14178216
If you arent a hedonistic materialist you're right wing. Even ascetic materialists are right wing.

[Anonymous No.14178280]

>>14178224
This meme was made by Nazbol Gang

[Anonymous No.14178383]

>>14178216
In 2019 being white is enough to get labeled as a Nazi.
Tolkien a monarchist.

[Anonymous No.14178399]

Catholics don't easily fit into one category on the political spectrum (and there's a lot of variation among Catholics) but on the whole Catholicism tends to favour the left in economics and the right in social issues.

> in 1943 Tolkien wrote, "My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs)—or to 'unconstitutional' Monarchy."[104]
>Tolkien had an intense hatred for the side effects of industrialization, which he considered to be devouring the English countryside and simpler life. For most of his adult life, he was disdainful of cars, preferring to ride a bicycle.[106]
>Although he did not often write or speak about it, Tolkien advocated the dismantling of the British Empire and even of the United Kingdom. In a 1936 letter to a former student, the Belgian linguist Simonne d'Ardenne, he wrote, "The political situation is dreadful... I have the greatest sympathy with Belgium—which is about the right size of any country! I wish my own were bounded still by the seas of the Tweed and the walls of Wales... we folk do at least know something of mortality and eternity and when Hitler (or a Frenchman) says 'Germany (or France) must live forever' we know that he lies."[105]
>Tolkien voiced support for the Nationalists (eventually led by Franco during the Spanish Civil War) upon hearing that communist Republicans were destroying churches and killing priests and nuns.[116]
>Tolkien vocally opposed Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party before the Second World War, and was known to especially despise Nazi racist and anti-semitic ideology. In 1938, the publishing house Rütten & Loening Verlag was preparing to release The Hobbit in Nazi Germany. To Tolkien's outrage, he was asked beforehand whether he was of Aryan origin. In a letter to his British publisher Stanley Unwin, he condemned Nazi "race-doctrine" as "wholly pernicious and unscientific". He added that he had many Jewish friends and was considering "letting a German translation go hang".[119
>He also reacted with anger to the excesses of anti-German propaganda during World War II
>Tolkien was horrified by the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, referring to the scientists of the Manhattan Project as "these lunatic physicists" and "Babel-builders".[125]

[Anonymous No.14178420]

>>14178216
Because he was. Not the average right-winger, but the man definitely wasn't a leftist (even the nature issue can be taken as part of traditionalism).

[Anonymous No.14178438]

>>14178399
Thanks for posting this, I had only a rough idea of his political beliefs. Although his positions are quite simple (and that's not necessarily a bad thing) I can happily observe that he was right about everything.

[Anonymous No.14178509]

>>14178399
>posting footnotes without citing source
Why

[Anonymous No.14178555]

[Anonymous No.14178580]

>>14178555
>Gondwhanaland
based and pangeapilled

[Anonymous No.14178581]

>>14178399
Seems like a level headed yet based individual

[Anonymous No.14178596]

>>14178555
absolutely based

[Anonymous No.14178600]

>>14178216
>Now goblins are cruel, wicked, and bad-hearted. They make no beautiful things, but they make many clever ones. They can tunnel and mine as well as any but the most skilled dwarves, when they take the trouble, though they are usually untidy and dirty. Hammers, axes, swords, daggers, pickaxes, tongs, and also instruments of torture, they make very well, or get other people to make to their design, prisoners and slaves that have to work till they die for want of air and light. It is not unlikely that they invented some of the machines that have since troubled the world, especially the ingenious devices for killing large numbers of people at once, for wheels and engines and explosions always delighted them.

[Anonymous No.14178699]

>>14178555
>There will be nowhere to go. So people will (I opine) go all the faster.
That is remarkably prescient

[Anonymous No.14178716]

>>14178399
Holy based

[Anonymous No.14178720]

>>14178399
So Tolkien was a based and redpilled guy that didn't constrain himself to retarded ideologies or movements. He really is a guy to emulate.

[Anonymous No.14178804]

>>14178216
he was loyal to King Louis XVI and would therefore have sat on the right in the National Assembly