[ SECRET POST #3993 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3993 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I felt like some of the things I took away from it the first time I read the books (late 90s) were anything but what my understanding of conservative was.

I don't know. I guess I picked up on the things that I wanted to see. The Elves were all about conserving the forests and living in balance with the world. The fortresses and the armies of orcs and forging of weapons was anti-war and all about the impacts of industrialisation. Sauron polluted a natural wetland so nothing nice grew there and no animals could survive.

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It's certainly agrarian and anti-industralist, but those aren't intrinsically liberal positions.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

At least in American politics, the conservationist movement had good support from conservative politicians until Reagan. The National Park Service was created by Teddy Roosevelt to preserve the greatness of American Heritage. Nixon was responsible for the EPA, and Ford was a strong advocate of fuel efficiency (although that was largely driven by foreign policy concerns.) I think Ford may have been the one to implement the Endangered Species Act as well.