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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, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, fantasy literature, Greg Johnson, J. R. R. Tolkien, North American New Right, originals, The Hobbit | 7 Responses

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Rengøring i Herredet

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En af mine foretrukne dele af Ringenes Herre er Sjette Bog, kapitel 8, ”Rengøring i Herredet”, det næstsidste kapitel i Kongen vender Tilbage. Read more …

Published: November 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Greg Johnson, in Danish, in translation, J. R. R. Tolkien, North American New Right | Leave a comment

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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, J. R. R. Tolkien, North American New Right, reprints, William de Vere | 7 Responses

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

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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 | 15 Responses

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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

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

446 words

“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, 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

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

446 words

“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, 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

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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, 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

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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

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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, 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

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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.

Published: December 15, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged fantasy literature, J. R. R. Tolkien, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Peter Jackson, The Hobbit, Trevor Lynch | 25 Responses

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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

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The Scouring of the Shire

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Translations: Danish, Portuguese

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

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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, 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

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Tolkien: Maitre de la terre du milieu

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

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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.

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

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Tolkien: Meister von Mittelerde

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

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Tolkien: Master of Middle Earth

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

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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.

Published: July 30, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Esoteric Hitlerism, fascism, Guillermo del Toro, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Peter Jackson, The Hobbit, the occult, Trevor Lynch | 2 Responses

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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.

Published: July 17, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged European identity, fantasy literature, J. R. R. Tolkien, LOTR reviews, movie reviews, North American New Right, Peter Jackson, reprints, Trevor Lynch | 1 Response

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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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Published: July 17, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged European identity, fantasy literature, J. R. R. Tolkien, LOTR reviews, movie reviews, North American New Right, Peter Jackson, reprints, Trevor Lynch | Leave a comment

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The Fellowship of the Ring

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At one minute past midnight on Wednesday, December 19th, 2001, I was one of hundreds of people assembled in several sold-out theaters to see the Atlanta opening of Lord of the Rings. I was astonished that hundreds of people had gathered to watch a three-hour movie starting after midnight. Read more …

Published: July 17, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged European identity, fantasy literature, J. R. R. Tolkien, LOTR reviews, movie reviews, Peter Jackson, reprints, Trevor Lynch | 6 Responses

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