Tag Archives: The Lord of the Rings

The Darkening of White Fantasy Literature

Fenek Solère

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, J. R. R. Tolkien, originals, political correctness, white dispossession | 25 Responses

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, J. R. R. Tolkien, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, The Hobbit | 14 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

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, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, J. R. R. Tolkien, literature, North American New Right, The Hobbit | 4 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, J. R. R. Tolkien, literature, North American New Right, The Hobbit | 2 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, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, J. R. R. Tolkien, literature, North American New Right, originals, The Hobbit | 4 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, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, J. R. R. Tolkien, literature, North American New Right, originals, The Hobbit | 2 Responses

Ten Favorite Films

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Author’s Note:

The following text is a scrap rescued from obscurity and buffed up a bit. In 2002, a reader of VNN suggested that the site’s movie reviewers post their “Ten Best” lists. I found it impossible to settle on just ten best films. So I decided to produce a “Favorites” list instead. I came up with more than thirty movies. These are films I like to re-watch and show to my friends. I think the list includes some of the best films ever made, Read more …

Published: March 7, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock, Blue Velvet, David Lynch, movie reviews, Network, North American New Right, Paddy Chayevsky, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, reprints, Sidney Lumet, The Birds, the Jewish question, Trevor Lynch | 38 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, J. R. R. Tolkien, literature, North American New Right, originals, The Hobbit | 8 Responses

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

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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, J. R. R. Tolkien, National Socialism, North American New Right, Peter Jackson, the Jewish question | 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, J. R. R. Tolkien, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Peter Jackson, the Jewish question | 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, J. R. R. Tolkien, literature, North American New Right, originals, The Hobbit | 5 Responses

Tolkien: Maitre de la terre du milieu

Britannicus

J. R. R. Tolkien, 1892–1973

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English original here, German translation here

En dépit de la dérision générale de l’establishment littéraire, qui ne put jamais comprendre son esprit naturellement noble, le Seigneur des Anneaux de Tolkien a été récemment élu comme la plus grande œuvre de fiction du vingtième siècle par des milliers de clients de Waterstone [chaîne de librairies en Angleterre]. La récompense est largement méritée, car le chef-d’œuvre de Tolkien est un classique du roman héroïque. Read more …

Published: April 15, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, European identity, fantasy literature, in French, in translation, J. R. R. Tolkien, reprints, The Hobbit | Leave a comment

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

But philosophically and politically, Tolkien was much closer to the New Right than the New Left. Tolkien was a conservative and a race realist. His preferences ran toward non-constitutional monarchy in the capital and de facto anarchy in the provinces, Read more …

Published: January 3, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, J. R. R. Tolkien, literature, North American New Right, originals, The Hobbit | 11 Responses

Tolkien: Meister von Mittelerde

Britannicus

J. R. R. Tolkien, 1892–1973

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Übersetzt von Deep Roots

English original here, French translation here

Anm. d. Ü.: Die Zitate aus dem “Herrn der Ringe” sind entsprechend der deutschen Ausgabe von 1980 wiedergegeben (Klett-Cotta, aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Margaret Carroux, die dabei noch mit Tolkien zusammengearbeitet hat); die restlichen Zitate sind von mir direkt nach Brittanicus’ Text übersetzt worden. Read more …

Published: December 31, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, European identity, fantasy literature, in German, in translation, J. R. R. Tolkien, reprints, The Hobbit | Leave a comment

Tolkien: Master of Middle Earth

Britannicus

J. R. R. Tolkien, 1892–1973

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German translation here, French translation here

Despite the universal derision of the literary establishment, which could never comprehend its inherently noble spirit, J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings was recently voted the greatest work of fiction of the twentieth century by thousands of Waterstones’ customers. The accolade is well-deserved, for Tolkien’s masterpiece is a classic of heroic romance. Read more …

Published: August 7, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, European identity, fantasy literature, J. R. R. Tolkien, reprints, The Hobbit | 3 Responses

The Spanish Films of Guillermo del Toro

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Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican director whose films I have been watching since I learned he was directing The Hobbit, which is being produced by Peter Jackson, the director of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. As a LOTR fanatic, I wanted to get a sense of how Del Toro might handle The Hobbit. This is the first of three reviews I hope to write on his work so far.

The Return of The King

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It was one minute past midnight, one last time. I knew The Return of The King would be a great movie, and it is. The only question in my mind was, “How great?”

Return is not as good as The Two Towers, my favorite Rings movie, but it is a magnificent, moving film, that will not disappoint, and taken together the Rings movies are certainly the greatest movie trilogy ever made, and rank among the greatest achievements in film history.

The Two Towers

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It was one minute past midnight again, exactly 364 days after the opening of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of The Lord of the Rings movies, and I was back for the opening of The Two Towers. I loved the first movie so much that I was fully expecting to be disappointed. There’s nowhere to go from here but down, I thought. So I was moved to tears of absolute delight that The Two Towers is even better than The Fellowship of the Ring.

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The Fellowship of the Ring