Happy Tolkien's birthday to all who celebrate!
#JRRTolkien #Birthday #books #livres #bookstodon #author #auteur #anniversaire #Hobbit #LordOfTheRings #OTD
Happy Tolkien's birthday to all who celebrate!
#JRRTolkien #Birthday #books #livres #bookstodon #author #auteur #anniversaire #Hobbit #LordOfTheRings #OTD
I always thought that #JRRTolkien's #Smaug was a metaphor for the #IndustrialAge and #WealthHoarding. It seems I'm not alone! #Tolkien was actually an #environmentalist and possibly a #socialist (though he describes himself as an #anarchist). Does that mean #LOTR will be banned by #Fascistic #Capitalists? Hmmmm...
#Dragonomics: Smaug and #ClimateChange
Posted on February 22, 2019 by Richard Fahey
Excerpt: "Today, we talk about dragons. I refer specifically to the greedy, northern (often fire-breathing) variety as described in Beowulf and featured in Tolkien’s #Hobbit, and I will consider how these monsters present #EnvironmentalCatastrophe as a direct result of #hoarding and #greed.
"My discussion of dragons and climate change continues my recent series of blogs interested in placing medieval literature (and in this case also modern medievalism) in conversation with current crises. This blog develops an earlier argument made in a paper at a 'Tolkien in Vermont' conference (2014), titled 'Dragonomics: Smaug and #Pollution on Middle-Earth,' in which I argue that pollution in Tolkien’s Hobbit is linked to both the literal destruction by the dragon, and the rampant greed that motivates Smaug and ultimately initiates the plunder and violence at the Battle of Five Armies."
#MiddleEarth #Capitalism #ClimateCrisis #Oiligarchy #Oligarchy #CapitalismMustDie
88 years ago today, The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien was published. I still have my first copy that my parents gifted me at age 10. It was my gateway to modern fantasy and it was also the spark that ignited my interest in cartography and map making which eventually became, a few decades later, my profession.
#hobbit #handcrafted #fantasy #storytelling #mapmaking #fantasymaps #noai
88 years ago today, The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien was published. I still have my first copy that my parents gifted me at age 10. It was my gateway to modern fantasy and it was also the spark that ignited my interest in cartography and map making which eventually became, a few decades later, my profession.
#hobbit #handcrafted #fantasy #storytelling #mapmaking #fantasymaps #noai
