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    10 Things You Should Know about Middle-earth’s Politics and Warfare

    Really cool article for those interested in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

    10 Things You Should Know about Middle-earth’s Politics and Warfare

    Pertaining to the aforementioned topic, it naturally brings up the question – why would a history website like ours cover a seemingly ‘fantasy’ scope? Well firstly Tolkien’s entire legendarium was meticulously crafted and inspired by real-world history. Some pertinent examples from The Lord of the Rings would include the allusion to the Anglo-Saxons when it comes to the Kingdom of Rohan, or the hint of the Roman Empire (and its Eastern and Western partition) in the divided realms of Gondor and Arnor. More importantly, the fantasy works concocted by J.R.R. Tolkien are historically relevant in the avenue of literature. And furthermore, his literary pieces make for a pretty interesting subject when discussed through the comparative lens of history and political systems. But before we begin the list, here is the foreword from the author of the article, Timothy R. Furnish, PhD –
    Despite being a historian of Islam and the Middle East with three books published on those topics, I decided some time ago to write on Middle-earth—and the first of my two complementary Tolkien volumes, High Towers and Strong Places: A Political History of Middle-earth, was recently published by Oloris. The follow-on work, Bright Swords and Glorious Warriors: A Military History of Middle-earth should be out early 2017. Following are some interesting political and military aspects of Tolkien’s world, gleaned from his many writings which I researched for these books.




    1) The Lord of the Rings [LotR] is the account of a great war in about 4000 BC that takes place in the western part of the Northern hemisphere.


    Tolkien wrote that the events of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion took place in the ancient history of our world, and specifically that Sauron’s final defeat, which occurred in year 3019 of the Third Age, was about 6000 years before our time.
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    Tolkien was well studied in European History as well as Mythology. He also relied on his WWI experiences to write about the horror of warfare.
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    I wonder how fast Tolkien is rolling in his grave, seeing how Amazon is corrupting his work?
    I bet his son Christopher is spinning too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RMNIXON View Post
    Tolkien was well studied in European History as well as Mythology. He also relied on his WWI experiences to write about the horror of warfare.
    His work was also deeply affected by his Catholicism.
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    read the trilogy before I read The Hobbit. I wished I hadn't, since The Hobbit was the better book.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chuck View Post
    read the trilogy before I read The Hobbit. I wished I hadn't, since The Hobbit was the better book.
    I read the Hobbit first. Liked them all, but the LoR was better.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I read the Hobbit first. Liked them all, but the LoR was better.
    LOTR was certainly a lot longer. It was like a badge of honor to have read the whole thing.

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    And for another edition: LoRs from the Witch King's Perspective.

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    Yes, there were complaints by the left over the Lord of the Rings. It was clearly "racist" - the good guys are white dudes (Gondor and Rohan) while the human allies of Sauron were darkies from the East.

    You can call those people the pre-Woke. And mock them.
    Note: this video is much more political than the others.
    The Politics of Lord of the Rings: The Forgotten Conservatism of Middle-Earth

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    Lord of the Rings from Galadriel's perspective (She stays in one place for the entire LoR, but what was she doing behind the scenes?)




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