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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7762848" data-attributes="member: 42582">I've read Epic Pooh, but see it to a significant extent as a mostly literary attack. It's interesting, but then I also enjoy Pooh so there's only a limited extent to which I agree with Moorcock.The reason I say that LotR is reactionary, or verging on it, is because of the combination of the theological account of evil and providence with the account of social relations. (One could say it has almost no account of social relations. That would probably be fair, but wouldn't be evidence against it being reactionary!)I don't think LotR is fascist.Also, for completeness, I take it as given that a work can be Catholic, even very Catholic, but not at all reactionary. Graham Greene is a prominent example.EDIT for clarity: some people may assume that describing LotR as verging on reactionary is a criticism. It's not intended as such. I've only read a handful of fantasy authors, and the only ones I reread (and who I assume influence my approach to FRPGing) are JRRT, REH, Ursula Le Guin and Chris Claremont (his run on the X-Men). Also occasionally HPL, but I find him nearly unreadable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7762848, member: 42582"] I've read Epic Pooh, but see it to a significant extent as a mostly literary attack. It's interesting, but then I also enjoy Pooh so there's only a limited extent to which I agree with Moorcock. The reason I say that LotR is reactionary, or verging on it, is because of the combination of the theological account of evil and providence with the account of social relations. (One could say it has almost no account of social relations. That would probably be fair, but wouldn't be evidence [I]against[/I] it being reactionary!) I don't think LotR is fascist. Also, for completeness, I take it as given that a work can be Catholic, even very Catholic, but not at all reactionary. Graham Greene is a prominent example. EDIT for clarity: some people may assume that describing LotR as verging on reactionary is a criticism. It's not intended as such. I've only read a handful of fantasy authors, and the only ones I reread (and who I assume influence my approach to FRPGing) are JRRT, REH, Ursula Le Guin and Chris Claremont (his run on the X-Men). Also occasionally HPL, but I find him nearly unreadable. [/QUOTE]

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