Tag Archives: J. R. R. Tolkien

Owen Barfield’s History in English Words

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Owen Barfield
History in English Words
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1926

In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but frozen into their attitudes like the courtiers in the garden of the Sleeping Beauty.

— Owen Barfield Read more …

Published: May 19, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, C. S. Lewis, Fenek Solère, literature, Martin Heidegger, mysticism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, poetry, religion, Symbolism | 2 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 257
Culture Jamming with Morgoth

Counter-Currents Radio

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Greg Johnson talks to Morgoth of Morgoth’s Review on the web, Bitchute, and YouTube about White Nationalist culture jamming, the Eternal Anglo vs. Tolkienism, Arts & Crafts, and Aestheticism, Roger Scruton, whiteness in classical and pop music, the 2019 UK General Election, Read more …

Published: January 24, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged 2019 UK National Elections, aestheticism, Arts and Crafts movement, classical music, Counter-Currents Radio, culture jamming, Denis Villeneuve, Dune, England, Frank Herbert, implicit whiteness, interviews, Labour Party, liberal education, Morgoth, Oscar Wilde, pedophilia, podcasts, popular culture, popular music, rape, Roger Scruton, Rotherham, Scotland, Scottish Independence | 8 Responses

Who’s Ready for Black Elves in Middle Earth?

Robert Hampton

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Tolkien world experienced two huge events this month.

Amazon announced last week the diverse cast for its new Lord of the Rings series. Shortly thereafter, Christopher Tolkien, J. R. R. Tolkien’s editor and the guardian of his father’s legacy, died. (Hopefully, there was no connection between the events.) Read more …

Published: January 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Disney, fantasy literature, Game of Thrones, movie reviews, Peter Jackson, political correctness, science fiction, Star Wars, television reviews, white dispossession | 25 Responses

The Rangers of the North

William de Vere

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“Few now remember them . . . yet still some go wandering, sons of forgotten kings walking in loneliness, guarding from evil things folks that are heedless.” (Tom Bombadil, “Fog on the Barrow Downs,” The Fellowship of the Ring)

In memory of Christopher Tolkien Read more …

Published: January 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, fantasy literature, North American New Right, reprints, The Lord of the Rings, William de Vere | 7 Responses

Remembering Christopher Tolkien, 1924–2020

Christopher Tolkien

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J. R. R. Tolkien’s youngest son, Christopher, died on January 15 at the age of 95. Even in old age, Christopher cut a striking scholarly figure, sitting as he did in a green cardigan before a log fire. His reedy voice, occasionally crackling like the dry wood in the stone hearth at his feet, carrying with it subtle wisps of academic gravitas, as smoky shadows curled like grey-blue snakes around a towering bookcase filled with leather-bound tomes Read more …

Published: January 19, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, fantasy literature, Fenek Solère, North American New Right, originals | 7 Responses

The Darkening of White Fantasy Literature

Arthur Rackham's painting of Alberich and the Rhine Maidens after Richard Wagner

Arthur Rackham, Alberich and the Rhine Maidens, 1910-1911

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Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.

In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:

Ever drifting down the stream —
Lingering in the golden gleam —
Life, what is it but a dream?

— Lewis Carroll, Alice Through the Looking Glass Read more …

Published: January 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged C. S. Lewis, fantasy literature, Fenek Solère, Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin, Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling, originals, political correctness, The Lord of the Rings, white dispossession | 25 Responses

Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer

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“Tolkien knows more about Chaucer than any living man.” — John Masefield, Poet Laureate (1930-67)

John M. Bowers’ book Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer (Oxford 2019) finally puts paid to the recently concocted mythology propagated in spurious articles like The Telegraph’s September 2009 piece “J.R.R. Tolkien Trained as a British Spy” and Elansea’s J.R.R. Tolkien: Codemaker, Spy-Master, Hero: An Un-Authorized Biography (2015), that the creator of Middle-Earth was some kind of tweed-jacketed Indiana Jones, Read more …

Published: January 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, fantasy literature, Fenek Solère, literature, Lord of the Rings, North American New Right, originals | 25 Responses

Remembering J. R. R. Tolkien:
January 3, 1892–September 2, 1973

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“I am in fact a Hobbit.”—J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is a favorite author of New Left “hippies” and New Right nationalists, and for pretty much the same reasons. Tolkien deeply distrusted modernization and industrialization, which replace organic reciprocity between man and nature with technological dominion of man over nature, a relationship that deforms and devalues both poles. Read more …

Published: January 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, fantasy literature, Greg Johnson, literature, Lord of the Rings, North American New Right, originals, The Hobbit | Leave a comment

The Unknown Soldier:
Geoffrey Bache Smith, Tolkien’s Inspiration

Geoffrey Bache Smith

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Dark is the world our fathers left us,
Wearily, greyly the long years flow,
Almost the gloom has hope bereft us,
Far is the high gods’ song and low:

Sombre the crests of mountains lonely,
Leafless, wind-ridden, moan the trees;
Down in the valleys is twilight only.
Twilight over the mourning sea;

Time was when earth was always golden,
Time was when skies were always clear;
Spirits and souls of the heroes olden,
Faint are cries from the darkness, hear!

Tolkien, A Review

Spencer J. Quinn

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One of the advantages of reading biographies is that even if they’re not very good, there remains the consolation of having learned something. Sadly, this is one of the few positive things that can be said about the recent biopic Tolkien.

Biographies can be tricky to adapt for the screen. Filmmakers will want to adhere to the truth as much as possible while still being able to tell a coherent and thematic story. How much artistic license is too much? Read more …

Published: May 31, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, fantasy literature, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings | 14 Responses

Remembering J. R. R. Tolkien:
January 3, 1892–September 2, 1973

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“I am in fact a Hobbit.”—J. R. R. Tolkien

Published: January 3, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, fantasy literature, Greg Johnson, literature, Lord of the Rings, North American New Right, originals, The Hobbit | 16 Responses

Tolkien’s Last Book: The Fall of Gondolin

Alex Graham

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J. R. R. Tolkien (Christopher Tolkien, ed.)
The Fall of Gondolin
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018

The Fall of Gondolin is Tolkien’s final posthumous publication and the third of his “Great Tales,” alongside The Children of Húrin and Beren and Lúthien. It was compiled and edited by his son and literary executor, Christopher Tolkien, and contains multiple versions of the story, Read more …

Published: September 4, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, fantasy literature, North American New Right, originals | 14 Responses

Tolkien & the Kalevala

Alex Graham

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Among the vast array of sources that influenced Tolkien in the creation of his legendarium was the Kalevala, a collection of Finnish folk poetry compiled and edited by the Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot. Much scholarship exists on Tolkien’s Norse, Germanic, and Anglo-Saxon influences, but his interest in the Kalevala is not as often discussed. Read more …

Published: July 13, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, articles, fantasy literature, Finland, Jean Sibelius, North American New Right, originals | 3 Responses

Remembering J. R. R. Tolkien:
January 3, 1892 to September 2, 1973

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“I am in fact a Hobbit.”—J. R. R. Tolkien

Published: January 3, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings | 4 Responses

High Voltage Heptarchy, Part 2
Solstice & Song

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“There’s a feeling I get when I look to the West.”–“Stairway to Heaven,” Led Zeppelin IV

It was with the advent of Frenchman Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile (1762) that a direct link was first made between national culture and the simplicity of peasant life. Read more …

Published: October 12, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Fairport Convention, Fenek Solère, folk music, graphic design, Heavy Metal, Johann Gottfried von Herder, Led Zeppelin, North American New Right, originals, popular music, progressive rock, white identity | Leave a comment

The Lord of the Rings:
The Return of the Meme

Will Windsor

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We owe a great debt of gratitude to J. R. R. Tolkien, who embodied the medieval bardic tradition, and penned his epic tale in rebuke of mechanized modernity. I doubt even Tolkien could have predicted that some fifty years later, his story would look more like prophecy than fable. Then again, Tolkien probably sensed Europe had entered its twilight. The Great European Civil War of the twentieth century, which Tolkien fought in during its first phase, impressed upon him that modernity, with its unrelenting industry (capitalism) and hi-tech weaponry, was destroying the West. Read more …

Published: January 3, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged fantasy literature, film criticism, Jewish influence, Lord of the Rings, migrant crisis, North American New Right, originals, Will Windsor | 9 Responses

Remembering J. R. R. Tolkien:
January 3, 1892 to September 2, 1973

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“I am in fact a Hobbit.”—J. R. R. Tolkien

Published: January 3, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings | 2 Responses

Time for Tolkien

David Engels

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Translated by Margot Metroland

We are in an epoch in which numerous religious, ethnic, or sexual groups are risking community-implosion by trying to impose their own values on everyone else. A time in which a certain politician we shall not name Read more …

Published: December 5, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Belgium, conservatism, fantasy literature, hierarchy, monarchy, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, translations | 6 Responses

Tangled, Frozen, & “Tolkienist” Values

Julian Langness

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Like many in the Alt-Right, I am quite suspicious of the American entertainment industry and its effects on our subconscious assumptions as a society. As Joe Biden stated, “gay marriage” is a consequence of “Jewish leaders in the [entertainment] industry” and their “immense influence” over our culture. Biden’s statement was discussed so widely because all who heard it recognized that he was speaking a seldom-voiced truth: that the progressive social degeneracy of the last 50 years is due in large measure to Hollywood and a certain class of studio moguls and filmmakers. Read more …

Published: February 9, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Disney, fantasy literature, Julian Langness, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, William Lind | 9 Responses

Remembering J. R. R. Tolkien:
January 3, 1892 to September 2, 1973

446 words

“I am in fact a Hobbit.”—J. R. R. Tolkien

Published: January 3, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings | 4 Responses

Remembering J. R. R. Tolkien:
January 3, 1892 to September 2, 1973

446 words

“I am in fact a Hobbit.”—J. R. R. Tolkien

Published: January 3, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings | 2 Responses

The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies

Trevor Lynch

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In his remake of King Kong, Peter Jackson dragged out the big ape’s death so long it felt like a lifetime. At the time, it merely seemed like a lapse of taste. In hindsight, it seems like the beginning of a whole new career characterized by megalomania, greed, one-upmanship, self-indulgence, and bad taste. It was just the first symptom of the dragon sickness that has now consumed him.

The Battle of Five Armies begins with Smaug giving Laketown the Dresden treatment, Read more …

Published: December 19, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged fantasy literature, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Peter Jackson, Trevor Lynch | 18 Responses

Remembering J. R. R. Tolkien:
January 3, 1892 to September 2, 1973

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“I am in fact a Hobbit.”—J. R. R. Tolkien

Published: January 3, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings | 8 Responses

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Trevor Lynch

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I was hoping that the first installment of The Hobbit trilogy would be merely a Phantom Menace moment, and that Peter Jackson would produce leaner, tighter sequels that would pull this ill-conceived trilogy out of the crapper. But no. I am saddened to report that The Desolation of Smaug is freighted with the same problems as the first movie, and more.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Trevor Lynch

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I am sorry to report that I was disappointed by The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first installment of Peter Jackson’s film trilogy based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.

Jackson’s first mistake was trying to make a trilogy at all. The Hobbit is shorter than any of the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings. Thus its story could have been told completely and satisfyingly in a single movie of around two hours.

O Expurgo do Condado

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English original here

Uma das minhas partes favoritas de O Senhor dos Anéis é o livro 6, capítulo 8, “O Expurgo do Condado”, o penúltimo capítulo de O Retorno do Rei. Read more …

Published: January 15, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, fantasy literature, Freikorps, Greg Johnson, in Portuguese, in translation, National Socialism, North American New Right, Peter Jackson, the Jewish question, The Lord of the Rings | Leave a comment

The Scouring of the Shire

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Portuguese translation here

One of my favorite parts of The Lord of the Rings is book 6, chapter 8, “The Scouring of the Shire,” the penultimate chapter of The Return of the King. Read more …

Published: January 3, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, fantasy literature, Freikorps, Greg Johnson, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Peter Jackson, the Jewish question, The Lord of the Rings | 18 Responses

Remembering J. R. R. Tolkien:
January 3, 1892 to September 2, 1973

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“I am in fact a Hobbit.”—J. R. R. Tolkien

Published: January 3, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings | 5 Responses

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