[ SECRET POST #3993 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3993 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's very conservative but in a sense that is largely different from what that means in 2017 (especially in the US but also elsewhere). It's fundamentally written from an agrarian, Anglo-Catholic, mythologizing, backwards-looking, Merrie Old England point of view. It reproduces a whole bunch of ideas about the proper social order and legitimacy and class relationships and kingship and all of those things that are basically conservative. Again, none of that actually lines up with issues-based politics right now, but it's still part of an extremely coherent and specific social conservative tradition.

The locus classicus for this argument is probably Michael Moorcock's Epic Pooh, so that might be worth reading if you want to see a more developed version of the argument. I definitely don't agree with everything he says but it's an interesting position and there's a lot of validity to it.

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Roman, not Anglo-Catholic. I am an Anglo-Catholic, so I'd love to claim Tolkien, but his mother's conversion to Roman Catholicism and his very very Roman Catholic upbringing and practice as an adult were extremely important to his identity and to the way he lived his life and understood his art.