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Tolkien as Christian conservative - did the movies leave out the battle for the shire because of it?
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<blockquote data-quote="The Barbarian" data-source="post: 77500353" data-attributes="member: 7989"><p>I noticed that element in it, but keep in mind that Tolkien was very disturbed by the way industrialism was undermining traditional English values. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">Tolkien has been called by the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> a "a neo-Luddite who never owned a car" (19 December 2001). </span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">Of course, only an Angeleno could connect not owning a car with Ludditism. In Tolkien's Oxford, nearly everything was within easy reach by bicycle or bus. To add to the irony, the name of the dragon Smaug in Tolkien's <em>The Hobbit</em> is frequently mispronounced by readers as 'smog' (a word which first came into being in 1905, only about 30 years before Tolkien began the book). But the charge has some truth. Tolkien bitterly resented the effect of industrialism on the countryside, as well as on its traditional way of life. This is nowhere more evident than in his representation of the Shire, the culture of which is deliberately evocative of the England of the late 1800s. The chapter on "The Scouring of the Shire" is Tolkien response to the effect of industrialism and its lifestyle. </span></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.csun.edu/~sk36711/WWW/tolkien/industrialism.htm[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Barbarian, post: 77500353, member: 7989"] I noticed that element in it, but keep in mind that Tolkien was very disturbed by the way industrialism was undermining traditional English values. [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]Tolkien has been called by the [I]Los Angeles Times[/I] a "a neo-Luddite who never owned a car" (19 December 2001). Of course, only an Angeleno could connect not owning a car with Ludditism. In Tolkien's Oxford, nearly everything was within easy reach by bicycle or bus. To add to the irony, the name of the dragon Smaug in Tolkien's [I]The Hobbit[/I] is frequently mispronounced by readers as 'smog' (a word which first came into being in 1905, only about 30 years before Tolkien began the book). But the charge has some truth. Tolkien bitterly resented the effect of industrialism on the countryside, as well as on its traditional way of life. This is nowhere more evident than in his representation of the Shire, the culture of which is deliberately evocative of the England of the late 1800s. The chapter on "The Scouring of the Shire" is Tolkien response to the effect of industrialism and its lifestyle. [/COLOR] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.csun.edu/~sk36711/WWW/tolkien/industrialism.htm[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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