{"id":61709,"date":"2023-01-04T03:39:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T09:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=61709"},"modified":"2023-01-04T03:39:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T09:39:50","slug":"literary-corner-remembering-j-r-r-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/04\/literary-corner-remembering-j-r-r-tolkien\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Corner: Remembering J.R.R Tolkien"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-61713\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/01\/jrr.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"646\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"page_title\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/counter-currents.com\/2023\/01\/remembering-j-r-r-tolkien-11\/\">Remembering J. R. R. Tolkien:<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/counter-currents.com\/2023\/01\/remembering-j-r-r-tolkien-11\/\"><span class=\"main_title_smaller_text\">January 3, 1892\u2013September 2, 1973<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><em>\u201cI am in fact a Hobbit.\u201d \u2014 J. R. R. Tolkien<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is a favorite author of New Left \u201chippies\u201d and New Right nationalists, and for pretty much the same reasons. Tolkien deeply distrusted modernization and industrialization, which replace organic reciprocity between man and nature with technological dominion of man over nature, a relationship that deforms and devalues both poles.<span id=\"more-150690\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2>But philosophically and politically, Tolkien was much closer to the New Right than the New Left. Tolkien was a conservative and a race realist. His preferences ran toward non-constitutional monarchy in the capital and\u00a0<em>de facto<\/em>\u00a0anarchy in the provinces,\u00a0but he recognized that state control can be minimized only in a society with a deep reverence for tradition and a high regard for individual honor and self-restraint.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remembering J. R. R. Tolkien: January 3, 1892\u2013September 2, 1973 &nbsp; \u201cI am in fact a Hobbit.\u201d \u2014 J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is a favorite author of New Left \u201chippies\u201d and New Right nationalists, and for pretty much the same reasons. Tolkien deeply distrusted modernization and industrialization, which replace organic reciprocity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[932,1427,4634],"tags":[15465,13882,15466],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}