Tolkien - Germanic Enemy of Civilisation?

Posted on another forum:

"Tolkien was a rampant Germanophile who was involved with a clique of
like-minded Anglo-Saxons who strived to have all latin words removed
from the English language. (Just like the Nazis attempted). The great
motivation for his silly nonsense seems to have been a hair-brained
attempt to turn the cultured Mediterranean world into the real
barbarians (the 'evil' and swarthy southern people of his books), and
makes the heroes of his stories racially pure Northern Europeans (who,
no surprise happen to speak Anglo-Saxon dialect) with great cities of
marble thousands of years ago, when they were little more than
cavemen. In reality we know, that for a 1000 years these people could
scarcely understand the concept of building more than a firepit of
stone, and instead built hovels of twigs, timber, mud and dung, none
of which survived a generation or two, not to mention virtually total
illiteracy, virtually no metal objects made by themselves, and pottery
so crude it could have been made in kindergarten classes. They
believed in Elves because they saw Celtic, and later, Roman trade
goods they knew could not be made by human hands, and had to be made
by a greater race than they. (That much they got right).

It is a good thing that his great goal was not achieved in his
lifetime, that of making his ridiculous fairy tales the "National Myth
of the English People". If anything, the true National Myth of Britain
might rightfully be that of King Arthur, who is fondly remembered for
his struggle to save Romano-British, Western civilisation from the
invading, barbaric Anglo-Saxon hordes Tolkien idolized. The besieging,
plundering orcs in these stories could easily be the Germannic hordes
that overran Western civilizaton and set world progress back a
millenium. Too bad Rome didn't possess the 'magic' to have the earth
upen up and swallow their 'orc's like those in the film.

It is fortunate the vast majority of people who are enthralled by this
nonsense have no concept it is an attempt to revise European history
with its role reversal of civilization and barbarism. For all they
know, 'Middle Earth' could be on another planet, in a galaxy far, far
away. Let's keep it there."

Thoughts?

On 23 Feb 2004 17:41:35 -0800,
Tim O'Neill <scatha.TakeThisOut@bigpond.com> wrote:
 > Posted on another forum:
 >
 > "Tolkien was a rampant Germanophile who was involved with a clique of
 > like-minded Anglo-Saxons who strived to have all latin words removed
 > from the English language. (Just like the Nazis attempted). The great
 > motivation for his silly nonsense seems to have been a hair-brained
 > attempt to turn the cultured Mediterranean world into the real
 > barbarians (the 'evil' and swarthy southern people of his books), and
 > makes the heroes of his stories racially pure Northern Europeans (who,
 > no surprise happen to speak Anglo-Saxon dialect) with great cities of
 > marble thousands of years ago, when they were little more than
 > cavemen. In reality we know, that for a 1000 years these people could
 > scarcely understand the concept of building more than a firepit of
 > stone, and instead built hovels of twigs, timber, mud and dung, none
 > of which survived a generation or two, not to mention virtually total
 > illiteracy, virtually no metal objects made by themselves, and pottery
 > so crude it could have been made in kindergarten classes. They
 > believed in Elves because they saw Celtic, and later, Roman trade
 > goods they knew could not be made by human hands, and had to be made
 > by a greater race than they. (That much they got right).
 >
 > It is a good thing that his great goal was not achieved in his
 > lifetime, that of making his ridiculous fairy tales the "National Myth
 > of the English People". If anything, the true National Myth of Britain
 > might rightfully be that of King Arthur, who is fondly remembered for
 > his struggle to save Romano-British, Western civilisation from the
 > invading, barbaric Anglo-Saxon hordes Tolkien idolized. The besieging,
 > plundering orcs in these stories could easily be the Germannic hordes
 > that overran Western civilizaton and set world progress back a
 > millenium. Too bad Rome didn't possess the 'magic' to have the earth
 > upen up and swallow their 'orc's like those in the film.
 >
 > It is fortunate the vast majority of people who are enthralled by this
 > nonsense have no concept it is an attempt to revise European history
 > with its role reversal of civilization and barbarism. For all they
 > know, 'Middle Earth' could be on another planet, in a galaxy far, far
 > away. Let's keep it there."
 >
 > Thoughts?

Yes, it is written by an idiot.

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Aaron Clausen

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