[ SECRET POST #3993 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3993 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

It is interesting. I feel pretty similarly.

I think it mostly comes down to a few things. First, obviously, there's a difference between the kind of weltanschauung we're talking about when we talk about the intellectual core underlying Lord of the Rings, and the actual quotidian details of everyday partisan politics. Second, any work of art is more than the worldview that animates it. So that's an important general point to keep in mind.

Third, I think there's a difference between the aesthetic and the political that's particularly important with Lord of the Rings. Obviously those two categories are closely linked, but the actual relationship between aesthetic sensibility and political worldview is a complex one. And so I think one thing with Lord of the Rings is that, even though there's clearly a conservative worldview at the base of it, the aesthetic sense of the work, and the way that it uses the sublime and beauty and mortality and death and evil and banality, those are all things that can be repurposed for other worldviews. A liberal worldview might use those themes in a different way but they're still powerful themes. And so much of what's powerful in LotR is the aesthetic and narrative sensibility of it, rather than the political worldview.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Good post.