The Tolkien society is hosting a woke seminar about Lord of the Rings this summer.

Just a few of the talks are titled “Gondor in Transition: A Brief Introduction to Transgender Realities in The Lord of the Rings” and “Pardoning Saruman?: The Queer in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings”.

https://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/tolkien-society-summer-seminar/

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We need 'The Real Tolkien Society'
Yet another blatant attack on Western Civ & Christianity. Since there is no counter to this, they will transition this classic to their twisted ends just like they have everything else they've targeted with no opposition. Soon, their narrative will be the norm.
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Voxday called it
Alastair Williams
Notice how it is mostly women who are making these 'talks'. Third wave feminism strikes again....(With apologies to all sensible, respectable women who love Tolkien, who I hope are just as outraged as the rest of us.)
What a load of absolute bollocks. Honestly what planet do these people live? Just a bunch of self-indulgent narcissists.
I by chance happened to listen to a German Tolkien society live talk some days ago.
There was mentioned: German society about 1000 members.
THE Tolkien society (English, which you mentioned above) supposedly having 3000 members.
Miniscule club! Not relevant for the fandom.
(And to my knowledge definitely a different entity to the body which is advising the coming LOTR amazon series).
What kind of mental gymnastics do they have to pull to honestly think Tolkien would have EVER tolerated their bullshit? Probably the same somersaults to be able to say that a man can become a woman just by wanting it badly enough. Ugh.
Do they have a seminar where they talk about how they're feasting upon his corpse like ghouls? No? Well can't say I am surprised.
Joker
No fed posting no fed posting no fed posting....
Sauron is using his puppet against middle earth. He will strike hard as he knows there's still strength in the race of men
Transgender? Queer? Tolkien was a very religious and probably very conservative man. One interpretation of L.O.T.R. is the Christian narrative about a war between angels and demons before our time. It's like the war between elves and the orcs.
mielia
I by chance happened to listen to a German Tolkien society live talk some days ago. There was mentioned: German society about 1000 members. THE Tolkien society (English, which you mentioned above) supposedly having 3000 members. Miniscule club! Not relevant for the fandom. (And to my knowledge definitely a different entity to the body which is advising the coming LOTR amazon series).
True, they did talk to the Tolkien Estate but two months after the deal was signed, Christopher Tolkien stepped down from his position. He probably knew what he just did or he was pressured to do it. A Tolkien scholar and biographer that participated in the Amazon series also left. These are not good signs.
Anton Komel
Christopher Tolkien was right. I agree with everything he said. I like LOTR movies. They were great. But C. Tolkien said they lacked the beauty and seriousness of the books. The Hobbit trilogy was next. Even Peter Jackson was desperate and very unsatisfied with them. They were totally below LOTR movies. What's coming now will be even worse. Please God, do not let them film The Sillmarillion.
Orcs have infested the white city
Pashta
UNBELIEVABLE!!!! They are trying to ruin EVERYTHING!!!
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