!bookworms it turns out Meloni is a huge Tolkien fan, so naturally The Economist journos decided to write about it.
https://txtify.it/https://econ.trib.al/k4Sh5eC
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Youtubercels discuss 
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“Tolkien was an anarchist,” lol yes, exactly the term I'd use for a devout Catholic who continued to loudly respond to the liturgy in Latin after Vatican II told everyone to switch. What a take.
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I'm not sure it's anarchism, but it definitely isn't respect for authority to be a Catholic in protest of the Pope's dictates -- even if what you cling to is older.
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He actually was a Christian anarchist a la Tolstoy's political philosophy, he talked about it in his letters. His second pick was a return to Monarchism though.
Tolkien confirmed !nonchuds
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Christian anarchism is a chuds ideology albeit
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It's more dramatic and more DC to put it the way I did and technically correct
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Then why did he make the Blacks into orcs?
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Asking zillenials to understand historical context is like asking a
to understand human genitals.
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He was neurodivergent as frick and the other Inklings ditched him the first time they brought him on an outing because he wouldn't shut the frick up about trees.
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Lol he supported the Spanish Nationalists
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The Republicans burnt churches
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And r*ped nuns.
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