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adamthenorman:

J.R.R. Tolkien on Hitler & Nazism:
Tolkien’s academic writings on Old Norse and Germanic history, language  and culture were extremely popular among the Nazi elite, who were  obsessed with recreating ancient Germanic civilization. But Tolkien was  disgusted by Hitler and the Nazi party, and made no secret of the fact. He considered forbidding a German translation of The Hobbit after the German publisher, in accordance with Nazi law, asked him to certify that he was an “Aryan.” Instead, he wrote a scathing letter asserting, among other things, his  regret that he had no Jewish ancestors. His feelings are also evidenced  in a letter he wrote to his son: “I have in this War a burning private  grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at  22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler … Ruining,  perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed, that noble  northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever  loved, and tried to present in its true light.”www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/52115
^^^ Was I the only one who just pictured Tolkien donning the armour of Gondor, storming the Reich Chancellery and then running Hitler through with Narsil?


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    You, sir. *tips hat*
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    I have no words right now. Tolkien is the best person ever to have existed ever.
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    >He was known to begin classes by barging into the lecture hall, sometimes in era-appropriate chain mail armor, and...
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