Americans love Tolkien’s Middle Earth. It’s just like home!
Both are highly unequal societies of great & small people. But we can still put America on another path.
Both are highly unequal societies of great & small people. But we can still put America on another path.
We wander through the ruins of America’s accomplishments & hopes. But we can still change course.
Summary: We can all learn much from reading Lord of the Rings about the new America now emerging. A stratified society, with great and small people. Tolkien, ever the realist, shows how the small people can prosper in the 21st century — as America comes to resemble Middle Earth. Always on the top of my reading list …
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