[ SECRET POST #2737 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2737 ⌋

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Comments

[cbrachyrhynchos]

That's one I don't mind because...well, there's some fantastical racism at work there. Which, I know Tolkien was just kinda doing old school epic poetry "all ___ are like ____" sort of thing.

I don't see it that way because I don't see archetypalism in fantasy narratives as inherently about race, but about exaggerating certain human failings. Thorin's attempt to put his clan first in any consideration of how to rebuild is a tragic flaw with prior art going back to the roots of western literature. It's a tragedy that plays its self out repeatedly in real life. It can just as easily apply to, say, controversies over the content of the 9/11 museum/memorial. If there's any political parallel to be found in the conflict at the end of the novel, it's likely to European nationalism leading into WWII.

If anything, Walsh/Boyens have been playing up the diaspora narrative to a much greater degree than Tolkien writing as Bilbo. Pushing Thorin's emotional and moral choices onto a case of crazy by supernatural compulsion significantly undermines the moral that we need to put those historical grudges to the side for a greater good.