Tolkien, vriend van het Vlaams Blok!

[Alvader]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Celebfin

En dan nu de bewijzen.
Iemand die vele vrienden door de Duitsers heeft zien vermoord worden, zie ik niet snel als Nazi.

Kan er hier iemand aan dit sujet eens uitleggen dat extreem-rechts niet zomaar Nazisme is ?

[mad_drone]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Alvader

Natuurlijk komen ze overeen, maar ieder is wel baas in eigen land. En er is zeker geen sprake van een "alles moet kunnen zolang het de andere niet schaadt"-individualisme. Waarden, normen, tradities, het volk, eer, bloed: je vindt het allemaal in Tolkien. Dat jij ( en anderen ) hier dan onmiddellijk aan Hitler en de Holocaust denken, is jullie probleem. Het is een laffe poging om bepaalde (politieke ) ideeën in discrediet te brengen, terwijl je langs de andere kant ze wel kunt smaken in een epos.

kijk. als je blind gelooft in alles wat Tolkien schrijf. Dan moet je me maar eens uitleggen wat je leert uit de goede vriendschap tusse gimli en legolas, behalve dat vooroordelen en dat van gij zijt van een ander ras duidelijk geen goed effect heeft?

En als TOLKIEN het ZELF heeft gezegd dat zijn boeke geen links met de werkelijkheid zijn , waarom hebbe jullie dan geen respect voor die kerel en zijn literatuur of is respect niet een van de waarden van het VB?

[Distel]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door filosoof

Tolkien zélf had banden met extreemrechts...

En u kan dat ongetwijfeld aantonen.

[Alvader]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door mad_drone

kijk. als je blind gelooft in alles wat Tolkien schrijf. Dan moet je me maar eens uitleggen wat je leert uit de goede vriendschap tusse gimli en legolas, behalve dat vooroordelen en dat van gij zijt van een ander ras duidelijk geen goed effect heeft?

En als TOLKIEN het ZELF heeft gezegd dat zijn boeke geen links met de werkelijkheid zijn , waarom hebbe jullie dan geen respect voor die kerel en zijn literatuur of is respect niet een van de waarden van het VB?

1. Waar staat dat ik blind geloof wat Tolkien schrijft. Ik stel alleen vast dat Tolkien heel populair is, evenals de drie films over "The Lord of The Ring", en dat daarin de door mij vermelde kenmerken als volk, tradities, bloed, bodem enz te vinden zijn, zonder dat mensen beginnen te walgen of over Nazi's beginnen.
2. Hieruit kan je afleiden dat extreem-rechts en "eigen volk eerst" helemaal NIET gepaard hoeven te gaan met racisme of xenofobie zoals hier door de pseudo-intellectuelen blijkbaar steeds weer wordt gesteld. Wel is de vreemdeling een gast die zich dient aan te passen in zekere mate. Door de vreemdeling ook als "vreemd" te bevestigen, respecteer je ook zijn eigenheid en anders-zijn. En waarom zou er dan geen vriendschap kunnen ontstaan. Vriendschap is niet gelijk massale invasie van het gastland met familie en importbruiden.
3. Misschien heeft Tolkien inderdaad gesteld dat zijn boek geen link met de werkelijkheid heeft. Ik stel alleen vast dat de mensen van nu hier geen nazi-propaganda inzien, dus zijn de ideeën erin verwoordt waarschijnlijk niet irrealistisch of kwaadaardig. Mag ik trouwens opmerken dat u zelf met uw Gimli-Legolas voorbeeld ook Tolkien gebruikt voor politieke doelen en links met de realiteit.

[filosoof]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Distel

En u kan dat ongetwijfeld aantonen.

http://www.nationalfront.org/tolkien.html
hier wordt duidelijk verwezen naar zijn sympathieëen...


NORFOLK NF


Tolkien's Lord of the Rings: Is it Political Metaphor?

Stephen Goodson provides some little known facts about J. R. R. Tolkien

According to a survey by the Folio Society in 1997, as well as a poll by Waterstone's, the book-sellers, in January of that year, The Lord of the Rings was voted readers' "favourite book of all time." The recent film of the book has popularised it once more, and stimulated speculation as to what fuelled this extraordinary work.

While many aficionados are content to treat the Lord of the Rings as an epic fantasy, some have detected an underlying repugnance for the industrialisation of the countryside and the carnage of total war.

In June 1997, Ross Shimmon, chief executive of the Library Association, commented, "It's astonishing that Lord of the Rings has this impact. The idea of a parallel world... I wonder whether it's something to do with trying to make sense of the world around us?"

CANDOUR READER

A 20-year subscription to the patriotic journal Candour and a faithful preservation of its 24 volumes, may well provide some clues as to what were Tolkien's innermost thoughts, ideas and beliefs.

Candour was founded by A. K. Chesterton, a cousin of G. K. Chesterton, as a successor to Truth Magazine, of which he had previously been Deputy Editor. Chesterton, a distinguished veteran of two world wars, had earlier edited Oswald Medley's publications in the 'Thirties. In 1954 he established the League of Empire Loyalists, whose antics and interventions at Tory meetings proved to be a constant source of irritation and embarrassment to both Eden and MacMillan. In 1967 the League merged with the old British National Party (not to be confused with the present party of the same name) and the Racial Preservation Society to form the National Front, with the Greater Britain Movement joining the merger a short time later. Chesterton assumed the role of leader.

In 1973, Tolkien's copies of Candour were sold out of his estate for £10. In 1997, I inherited these newsletters from Chesterton's secretary Moyna Traill-Smith. The quotations from Candour which follow have all been underlined by Tolkien with a red biro.

EMPIRE TRAGEDY

The dissolution of the British Empire was viewed by Tolkien as a tragedy, which would have permanent negative consequences for its indigenous populations:-

'Africa is not peopled by Black Europeans, but it is a continent full of tribes mentally and morally at the dawn of history.'

'Self-government does not mean democracy - Liberia and Abyssinia are two warning lights. African hegemony would lead to the suicide of the White communities in East and Central Africa and to the ruin of African hopes of sustained progress' (3/10 August 1956, page 44).

Tolkien was disillusioned about the effectiveness of modern democracy, and considered both the media and high finance to be inimical to its success:-

'The concentration of the power of the Press has long made a mockery of whatever degree of informed democracy we may have once known' (10 February 1956, page 50).

'The true equation is, "democracy"' = government by world financiers.'

'The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.

'Thrived above all, in a manner without parallel in all past, is the veiled prophet of finance, swaying all men living by a sort of magic, and delivering oracles in a language not understood of the people' (13 July 1956, page 12).

MONETARY REFORMER

It was in the field of monetary reform that Tolkien displayed his most passionate concern. His indignation about the evil of usury - the creation of money out of nothing and then lending it out at interest - is reflected repeatedly:-

'There should only be one source of money: one fountainhead from which flows the nation's blood to vitalise commerce and industry, ensure economic equity and justice and safeguard the welfare of the people... In other words, it has always been our contention that the prerogative of creating and issuing the money of the nation should be restored to the state' (10 August 1956, page 48).

Utilising the above background, a brief exegesis of The Lord if the Rings may be attempted. The centre of all evil is the dark Lord Suron, who has enslaved the people of middle-Earth through the rings of power. There are seven rings for the dwarf lords, five for the eleven kings, nine for mortal men, and one to rule and bind them all in darkness and slavery forever. These brass rings were forged in the fires of Mount Doom and are symbolic of the central banks and their monopolistic powers, which enable them to create money out of nothing and lend it out at interest to the gullible people. With their unlimited financial power, they are able to control the mass media and spellbind the general public with their propaganda. Eventually good prevails over evil and the Ringwraiths, the Orcs and Uruk Hai monsters are defeated.

BACKGROUND

So who was John Ronald Reuel Tolkien? Did he support the National Front? Probably not in any meaningful way, but indisputably he was sympathetic to its anti-immigration and anti-Common Market policies, having endorsed Chesterton's views over two decades.

There is little doubt that Tolkien was a patriot, and his conviction that the civilising effects of the British Empire were a blessing to be enjoyed by all has been proved correct. The torment of death, debt and destruction, which Africa has subsequently endured, bears regrettable testimony to that fact.

Above everything else Tolkien may be judged as an ardent supporter of monetary reform. He understood that money is not a form of wealth, but a medium for the exchange of goods and services. He sought social justice through the adoption of an honest money system, which would distribute the benefits of the technological age to all mankind, and provide a secure basis for a future of progress and prosperity.

Tolkien could have written a treatise on political economy and, if published, it would in all likelihood have achieved only a limited circulation. By employing a powerful allegory, he has subconsciously embraced and influenced the minds of untold millions with his mythos.

[Distel]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door filosoof

http://www.nationalfront.org/tolkien.html
hier wordt duidelijk verwezen naar zijn sympathieëen...


NORFOLK NF


Tolkien's Lord of the Rings: Is it Political Metaphor?

Stephen Goodson provides some little known facts about J. R. R. Tolkien

According to a survey by the Folio Society in 1997, as well as a poll by Waterstone's, the book-sellers, in January of that year, The Lord of the Rings was voted readers' "favourite book of all time." The recent film of the book has popularised it once more, and stimulated speculation as to what fuelled this extraordinary work.

While many aficionados are content to treat the Lord of the Rings as an epic fantasy, some have detected an underlying repugnance for the industrialisation of the countryside and the carnage of total war.

In June 1997, Ross Shimmon, chief executive of the Library Association, commented, "It's astonishing that Lord of the Rings has this impact. The idea of a parallel world... I wonder whether it's something to do with trying to make sense of the world around us?"

CANDOUR READER

A 20-year subscription to the patriotic journal Candour and a faithful preservation of its 24 volumes, may well provide some clues as to what were Tolkien's innermost thoughts, ideas and beliefs.

Candour was founded by A. K. Chesterton, a cousin of G. K. Chesterton, as a successor to Truth Magazine, of which he had previously been Deputy Editor. Chesterton, a distinguished veteran of two world wars, had earlier edited Oswald Medley's publications in the 'Thirties. In 1954 he established the League of Empire Loyalists, whose antics and interventions at Tory meetings proved to be a constant source of irritation and embarrassment to both Eden and MacMillan. In 1967 the League merged with the old British National Party (not to be confused with the present party of the same name) and the Racial Preservation Society to form the National Front, with the Greater Britain Movement joining the merger a short time later. Chesterton assumed the role of leader.

In 1973, Tolkien's copies of Candour were sold out of his estate for £10. In 1997, I inherited these newsletters from Chesterton's secretary Moyna Traill-Smith. The quotations from Candour which follow have all been underlined by Tolkien with a red biro.

EMPIRE TRAGEDY

The dissolution of the British Empire was viewed by Tolkien as a tragedy, which would have permanent negative consequences for its indigenous populations:-

'Africa is not peopled by Black Europeans, but it is a continent full of tribes mentally and morally at the dawn of history.'

'Self-government does not mean democracy - Liberia and Abyssinia are two warning lights. African hegemony would lead to the suicide of the White communities in East and Central Africa and to the ruin of African hopes of sustained progress' (3/10 August 1956, page 44).

Tolkien was disillusioned about the effectiveness of modern democracy, and considered both the media and high finance to be inimical to its success:-

'The concentration of the power of the Press has long made a mockery of whatever degree of informed democracy we may have once known' (10 February 1956, page 50).

'The true equation is, "democracy"' = government by world financiers.'

'The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.

'Thrived above all, in a manner without parallel in all past, is the veiled prophet of finance, swaying all men living by a sort of magic, and delivering oracles in a language not understood of the people' (13 July 1956, page 12).

MONETARY REFORMER

It was in the field of monetary reform that Tolkien displayed his most passionate concern. His indignation about the evil of usury - the creation of money out of nothing and then lending it out at interest - is reflected repeatedly:-

'There should only be one source of money: one fountainhead from which flows the nation's blood to vitalise commerce and industry, ensure economic equity and justice and safeguard the welfare of the people... In other words, it has always been our contention that the prerogative of creating and issuing the money of the nation should be restored to the state' (10 August 1956, page 48).

Utilising the above background, a brief exegesis of The Lord if the Rings may be attempted. The centre of all evil is the dark Lord Suron, who has enslaved the people of middle-Earth through the rings of power. There are seven rings for the dwarf lords, five for the eleven kings, nine for mortal men, and one to rule and bind them all in darkness and slavery forever. These brass rings were forged in the fires of Mount Doom and are symbolic of the central banks and their monopolistic powers, which enable them to create money out of nothing and lend it out at interest to the gullible people. With their unlimited financial power, they are able to control the mass media and spellbind the general public with their propaganda. Eventually good prevails over evil and the Ringwraiths, the Orcs and Uruk Hai monsters are defeated.

BACKGROUND

So who was John Ronald Reuel Tolkien? Did he support the National Front? Probably not in any meaningful way, but indisputably he was sympathetic to its anti-immigration and anti-Common Market policies, having endorsed Chesterton's views over two decades.

There is little doubt that Tolkien was a patriot, and his conviction that the civilising effects of the British Empire were a blessing to be enjoyed by all has been proved correct. The torment of death, debt and destruction, which Africa has subsequently endured, bears regrettable testimony to that fact.

Above everything else Tolkien may be judged as an ardent supporter of monetary reform. He understood that money is not a form of wealth, but a medium for the exchange of goods and services. He sought social justice through the adoption of an honest money system, which would distribute the benefits of the technological age to all mankind, and provide a secure basis for a future of progress and prosperity.

Tolkien could have written a treatise on political economy and, if published, it would in all likelihood have achieved only a limited circulation. By employing a powerful allegory, he has subconsciously embraced and influenced the minds of untold millions with his mythos.

Mooie copy/paste, maar ik zie nog altijd niet waar hij banden heeft met extreem-rechts.

[filosoof]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Alvader

Kan er hier iemand aan dit sujet eens uitleggen dat extreem-rechts niet zomaar Nazisme is ?

....

[Aangebrande Phönix]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door mad_drone

HET IS FANTASY , ge weet wel, et zit vol met fantastische elementen, ben je dan niet al een beetje seniel als ge werkelijkheid en fantasie door elkaar smijt? het was geen werk over onze maatschappij, dus hoefde et ook niet vanuit een bepaald punt van onze maatschappij gade geslaan worden. Zelfs als ik die titel zie staan krijg ik er de kriebels van. Hoeveel Blokkertjes ( en niet blokkertjes) hebben voor de films de boeken gelezen? of de hobbit gelezen? of de silmarillion? en wel eens enen int engels? ...

You're a drone, what do you know? En je kan geen "wereld" schetsen zonder je te baseren op je eigen leefwereld. Je gaat altijd je fantasie-wereldje bekijken vanuit je eigen maatschappij en ze zal ontstaan uit een vergelijking met de maatschappij waar je in leeft. En het was een werk ter vervanging van de onbestaande (of verloren gegane) mythologie van Groot-Brittanië. Dus een zoektocht naar de "wortels" van deze samenleving. Anders dan jij beweert had ze dus wel degelijk een link met deze maatschappij.

[filosoof]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Distel

Mooie copy/paste, maar ik zie nog altijd niet waar hij banden heeft met extreem-rechts.

indisputably he was sympathetic to its anti-immigration and anti-Common Market policies, having endorsed Chesterton's views over two decades.

[Distel]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door filosoof

Daaruit blijkt enkel (ALS dit al waar is) dat hij anti-immigratie en anti-"Common Market policies" was, en dat hij graag Chesterton las. Meer niet.

Hoe u hieruit concludeert dat hij extreem rechtse banden had, is mij niet echt duidelijk.

We zouden evengoed kunnen concluderen dat alle moslims wereldwijd die op 9/11 op straat stonden te dansen banden hebben met Al Qaeda. Hoe zou u op zo'n conclusie reageren, Filosoof?

[mad_drone]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Alvader

1. Waar staat dat ik blind geloof wat Tolkien schrijft. Ik stel alleen vast dat Tolkien heel populair is, evenals de drie films over "The Lord of The Ring", en dat daarin de door mij vermelde kenmerken als volk, tradities, bloed, bodem enz te vinden zijn, zonder dat mensen beginnen te walgen of over Nazi's beginnen.
2. Hieruit kan je afleiden dat extreem-rechts en "eigen volk eerst" helemaal NIET gepaard hoeven te gaan met racisme of xenofobie zoals hier door de pseudo-intellectuelen blijkbaar steeds weer wordt gesteld. Wel is de vreemdeling een gast die zich dient aan te passen in zekere mate. Door de vreemdeling ook als "vreemd" te bevestigen, respecteer je ook zijn eigenheid en anders-zijn. En waarom zou er dan geen vriendschap kunnen ontstaan. Vriendschap is niet gelijk massale invasie van het gastland met familie en importbruiden.
3. Misschien heeft Tolkien inderdaad gesteld dat zijn boek geen link met de werkelijkheid heeft. Ik stel alleen vast dat de mensen van nu hier geen nazi-propaganda inzien, dus zijn de ideeën erin verwoordt waarschijnlijk niet irrealistisch of kwaadaardig. Mag ik trouwens opmerken dat u zelf met uw Gimli-Legolas voorbeeld ook Tolkien gebruikt voor politieke doelen en links met de realiteit.

ik gaf je dat enkel aan in de zin van: "als je nu echt dat boek wil interpretere, doe dit dan ook eens." maar voor de rest eis ik een scheiding tussen staat en literatuur!

[TomB]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Jan Hyoens

Tolkien, vriend van het Vlaams Blok.

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Jan Hyoens

"(gimliAls dat wil zeggen dat de westerse beschaving plaats moet maken voor een andere beschaving, met andere culturele waarden, dan moeten we daar nog eens goed over nadenken, want verdomme, ik ben voor een lelieblanke mannelijke cultuur"

Tiens tiens, de link tussen het Vlaams Blok en de lelieblanke mannelijke cultuur, en dan nog wel gelegd door Mr. Hyoens. En ik maar denken dat het Blok een centrumpartij geworden was die zich niet bezighield met racisme.

[Kitten]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door TomB

Tiens tiens, de link tussen het Vlaams Blok en de lelieblanke mannelijke cultuur, en dan nog wel gelegd door Mr. Hyoens. En ik maar denken dat het Blok een centrumpartij geworden was die zich niet bezighield met racisme.

Sinds wanneer zijn Europeanen "lelieblank"?
Ewww...

[Aangebrande Phönix]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Kitten

Sinds wanneer zijn Europeanen "lelieblank"?
Ewww...

Met een baard van 1/3 van de totale lichaamslengte en verplichte ceremoniële bijl naast de gewoonlijke klederdracht (en vlechtjes in het haar).

[Aangebrande Phönix]

Pff, straks gaat men nog beweren dat Tolkien voorstander was van de Rassungtheorie omdat alle personages in zijn boeken blanken zijn. Anders dan in Amerikaanse serieus over het antieke Rome of Hellas waar zelfs daar elementaire zwarten en Chinezen in voorkomen. En het tot generaal schoppen. Want waarom zouden etnische minderheden dat niet kunnen he.

[filosoof]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Distel

Daaruit blijkt enkel (ALS dit al waar is) dat hij anti-immigratie en anti-"Common Market policies" was, en dat hij graag Chesterton las. Meer niet.

Hoe u hieruit concludeert dat hij extreem rechtse banden had, is mij niet echt duidelijk.

We zouden evengoed kunnen concluderen dat alle moslims wereldwijd die op 9/11 op straat stonden te dansen banden hebben met Al Qaeda. Hoe zou u op zo'n conclusie reageren, Filosoof?

He endorsed Chestertons views for over two decades... Dat is wat langer dan een avondje verbaal uit de band springen van pubers of Palestijnen...

[Distel]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door filosoof

He endorsed Chestertons views for over two decades... Dat is wat langer dan een avondje verbaal uit de band springen van pubers of Palestijnen...

En wanneer ik Chesterton opzoek in Google, vind ik niks dan lof voor iemand die blijkbaar een brilliant schrijver genoemd wordt. Erg toch.

[filosoof]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Distel

En wanneer ik Chesterton opzoek in Google, vind ik niks dan lof voor iemand die blijkbaar een brilliant schrijver genoemd wordt. Erg toch.

Ik vrees dat je de andere Chesterton vond:

Candour was founded by A. K. Chesterton, a cousin of G. K. Chesterton, as a successor to Truth Magazine, of which he had previously been Deputy Editor. Chesterton, a distinguished veteran of two world wars, had earlier edited Oswald Medley's publications in the 'Thirties. In 1954 he established the League of Empire Loyalists, whose antics and interventions at Tory meetings proved to be a constant source of irritation and embarrassment to both Eden and MacMillan. In 1967 the League merged with the old British National Party (not to be confused with the present party of the same name) and the Racial Preservation Society to form the National Front, with the Greater Britain Movement joining the merger a short time later.

Daar was Tolkien 20 jaar door beïnvloed....
duidelijker nu?
Jan Hyoens begon zélf al:

[quote"Jan Hyoens"]"(gimliAls dat wil zeggen dat de westerse beschaving plaats moet maken voor een andere beschaving, met andere culturele waarden, dan moeten we daar nog eens goed over nadenken, want verdomme, ik ben voor een lelieblanke mannelijke cultuur" [/quote]
Niets om over na te denken, voor jou?

dit artikel:

Tolkien's Lord of the Rings: Is it Political Metaphor?


Stephen Goodson provides some little known facts about J. R. R. Tolkien



According to a survey by the Folio Society in 1997, as well as a poll by Waterstone's, the book-sellers, in January of that year, The Lord of the Rings was voted readers' "favourite book of all time." The recent film of the book has popularised it once more, and stimulated speculation as to what fuelled this extraordinary work.

While many aficionados are content to treat the Lord of the Rings as an epic fantasy, some have detected an underlying repugnance for the industrialisation of the countryside and the carnage of total war.

In June 1997, Ross Shimmon, chief executive of the Library Association, commented, "It's astonishing that Lord of the Rings has this impact. The idea of a parallel world... I wonder whether it's something to do with trying to make sense of the world around us?"

CANDOUR READER

A 20-year subscription to the patriotic journal Candour and a faithful preservation of its 24 volumes, may well provide some clues as to what were Tolkien's innermost thoughts, ideas and beliefs.

Candour was founded by A. K. Chesterton, a cousin of G. K. Chesterton, as a successor to Truth Magazine, of which he had previously been Deputy Editor. Chesterton, a distinguished veteran of two world wars, had earlier edited Oswald Medley's publications in the 'Thirties. In 1954 he established the League of Empire Loyalists, whose antics and interventions at Tory meetings proved to be a constant source of irritation and embarrassment to both Eden and MacMillan. In 1967 the League merged with the old British National Party (not to be confused with the present party of the same name) and the Racial Preservation Society to form the National Front, with the Greater Britain Movement joining the merger a short time later. Chesterton assumed the role of leader.

In 1973, Tolkien's copies of Candour were sold out of his estate for £10. In 1997, I inherited these newsletters from Chesterton's secretary Moyna Traill-Smith. The quotations from Candour which follow have all been underlined by Tolkien with a red biro.

EMPIRE TRAGEDY

The dissolution of the British Empire was viewed by Tolkien as a tragedy, which would have permanent negative consequences for its indigenous populations:-

'Africa is not peopled by Black Europeans, but it is a continent full of tribes mentally and morally at the dawn of history.'

'Self-government does not mean democracy - Liberia and Abyssinia are two warning lights. African hegemony would lead to the suicide of the White communities in East and Central Africa and to the ruin of African hopes of sustained progress' (3/10 August 1956, page 44).

Tolkien was disillusioned about the effectiveness of modern democracy, and considered both the media and high finance to be inimical to its success:-

'The concentration of the power of the Press has long made a mockery of whatever degree of informed democracy we may have once known' (10 February 1956, page 50).

'The true equation is, "democracy"' = government by world financiers.'

'The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.

'Thrived above all, in a manner without parallel in all past, is the veiled prophet of finance, swaying all men living by a sort of magic, and delivering oracles in a language not understood of the people' (13 July 1956, page 12).

MONETARY REFORMER

It was in the field of monetary reform that Tolkien displayed his most passionate concern. His indignation about the evil of usury - the creation of money out of nothing and then lending it out at interest - is reflected repeatedly:-

'There should only be one source of money: one fountainhead from which flows the nation's blood to vitalise commerce and industry, ensure economic equity and justice and safeguard the welfare of the people... In other words, it has always been our contention that the prerogative of creating and issuing the money of the nation should be restored to the state' (10 August 1956, page 48).

Utilising the above background, a brief exegesis of The Lord if the Rings may be attempted. The centre of all evil is the dark Lord Suron, who has enslaved the people of middle-Earth through the rings of power. There are seven rings for the dwarf lords, five for the eleven kings, nine for mortal men, and one to rule and bind them all in darkness and slavery forever. These brass rings were forged in the fires of Mount Doom and are symbolic of the central banks and their monopolistic powers, which enable them to create money out of nothing and lend it out at interest to the gullible people. With their unlimited financial power, they are able to control the mass media and spellbind the general public with their propaganda. Eventually good prevails over evil and the Ringwraiths, the Orcs and Uruk Hai monsters are defeated.

BACKGROUND

So who was John Ronald Reuel Tolkien? Did he support the National Front? Probably not in any meaningful way, but indisputably he was sympathetic to its anti-immigration and anti-Common Market policies, having endorsed Chesterton's views over two decades.

There is little doubt that Tolkien was a patriot, and his conviction that the civilising effects of the British Empire were a blessing to be enjoyed by all has been proved correct. The torment of death, debt and destruction, which Africa has subsequently endured, bears regrettable testimony to that fact.

Above everything else Tolkien may be judged as an ardent supporter of monetary reform. He understood that money is not a form of wealth, but a medium for the exchange of goods and services. He sought social justice through the adoption of an honest money system, which would distribute the benefits of the technological age to all mankind, and provide a secure basis for a future of progress and prosperity.

Tolkien could have written a treatise on political economy and, if published, it would in all likelihood have achieved only a limited circulation. By employing a powerful allegory, he has subconsciously embraced and influenced the minds of untold millions with his mythos.

[Distel]

Kijk eens op http://www.isi.org/books/content/327intro.pdf

"The English Roman Catholic G. K. Chesterton, who served as a significant source of inspiration to Tolkien when he was a young man, once wrote that ?[h]e not only felt freer when he bent; he actually felt taller when he bowed."

Zeker dat jij wel de juiste Chesterton hebt?

[filosoof]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Distel

Kijk eens op http://www.isi.org/books/content/327intro.pdf

"The English Roman Catholic G. K. Chesterton, who served as a significant source of inspiration to Tolkien when he was a young man, once wrote that ?[h]e not only felt freer when he bent; he actually felt taller when he bowed."

Zeker dat jij wel de juiste Chesterton hebt?

A. K. Chesterton, a cousin of G. K. Chesterton staat er