The Hidden Meaning of the One Ring
Tolkien shows us the similarity between machinery and magic, which both point to the desire for power.
Tolkien shows us the similarity between machinery and magic, which both point to the desire for power.
When I first heard Elendil’s line in the third teaser trailer, “The past is dead, we either move forward or die with it,” I became fixated with the whole carnival surrounding Amazon’s billion dollar creative venture—how could it be that J.R.R. Tolkien, a Tridentine-Mass-loving skeptic of modernity was providing the aesthetic and imaginative fuel of woke intersectionalists and activist ideologues in Hollywood?
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