- Just ask Italian neofascists about their misappropriation of Tolkien’s literature - which was written largely with the horrors of WWI (and was certainly not indifferent to WWII) in mind.
- Musk and others on the far right are obsessed with things like Lord of the Rings and Dungeons and Dragons because they see fantasy worlds as reinforcing their own beliefs about immutable hierarchies of race, gender, and by extension morality www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
