Ars Politica - Ep49: Tolkien's European Epic Myth - a podcast by Stephen Wolfe

"Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” – Tolkien
Amazorg’s series producer: Lindsey Weber, an executive producer of the series, told Vanity Fair, which posted several first-look photos from the series on Instagram, that it was"only natural"for an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's work to"reflect what the world actually looks like.""Tolkien is for everyone. His stories are about his fictional races doing their best work when they leave the isolation of their own cultures and come together,"she said.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/02/amazon-the-rings-of-power-series-first-look“Hump, well! I wonder (if we survive this war) if there will be any niche, even of sufferance, left for reactionary back numbers like me (and you). The bigger things get the smaller and duller or flatter the globe gets. It is getting to be all one blasted little provincial suburb. When they have introduced American sanitation, morale-pep, feminism, and mass production throughout the Near East, Middle East, Far East, U.S.S.R., Hither Further and Inner Mumbo-land, Gondhwanaland, Lhasa, and the villages of darkest Berkshire, how happy we shall be. At any rate it ought to cut down on travel. There will be nowhere to go. So people will (I opine) go all the faster. Collie Knox says 1/8 of the world’s population speaks ‘English’, and that is the biggest language group. If true, damn shame—say I. May the curse of Babel strike all their tongues till they can only say ‘baa baa’. It would mean much the same. I think I shall have to refuse to speak anything but Old Mercian.” – Tolkien, From a letter to Christopher Tolkien, 9 December 1943


“Tolkien once remarked to me that the feeling about home must have been quite different in the days when the family had fed on the produce of the same few miles of country for six generations, and that perhaps this was why they saw nymphs in the fountains and dryads in the wood – they were not mistaken for there was in a sense a real (not metaphorical) connection between them and the countryside. What had been earth and air& later corn, and later still bread, really was in them. We of course who live on a standardised international diet (you may have had Canadian flour, English meat, Scotch oatmeal, African oranges,& Australian wine to day) are really artificial beings and have no connection (save in sentiment) with any place on earth. We are synthetic men, uprooted. The strength of the hills is not ours.”  – C.S. Lewis, Collected Letters, Volume 1

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