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I am sorry to report that I was disappointed by The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first installment of Peter Jackson’s film trilogy based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.

Jackson’s first mistake was trying to make a trilogy at all. The Hobbit is shorter than any of the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings. Thus its story could have been told completely and satisfyingly in a single movie of around two hours.

Remembering J. R. R. Tolkien:
January 3, 1892 to September 2, 1973

Greg Johnson

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“I am in fact a Hobbit.”—J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is a favorite author of New Left “hippies” 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. Read more …

Published: January 3, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, J. R. R. Tolkien, literature, North American New Right, originals, The Lord of the Rings | Comments closed

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Tolkien: Maitre de la terre du milieu

Brittanicus

J. R. R. Tolkien, 1892–1973

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English original here, German translation here

En dépit de la dérision générale de l’establishment littéraire, qui ne put jamais comprendre son esprit naturellement noble, le Seigneur des Anneaux de Tolkien a été récemment élu comme la plus grande œuvre de fiction du vingtième siècle par des milliers de clients de Waterstone [chaîne de librairies en Angleterre]. La récompense est largement méritée, car le chef-d’œuvre de Tolkien est un classique du roman héroïque. Read more …

Published: April 15, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, European identity, in French, in translation, J. R. R. Tolkien, reprints, The Lord of the Rings | Comments closed

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Remembering J. R. R. Tolkien:
January 3, 1892 to September 2, 1973

Greg Johnson

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"I am in fact a Hobbit."—J. R. R. Tolkien

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 de facto anarchy in the provinces, Read more …

Published: January 3, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, J. R. R. Tolkien, literature, North American New Right, originals, The Lord of the Rings | Comments closed

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Tolkien: Meister von Mittelerde

Brittanicus

J. R. R. Tolkien, 1892–1973

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Übersetzt von Deep Roots

English original here, French translation here

Anm. d. Ü.: Die Zitate aus dem “Herrn der Ringe” sind entsprechend der deutschen Ausgabe von 1980 wiedergegeben (Klett-Cotta, aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Margaret Carroux, die dabei noch mit Tolkien zusammengearbeitet hat); die restlichen Zitate sind von mir direkt nach Brittanicus’ Text übersetzt worden. Read more …

Published: December 31, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, European identity, in German, in translation, J. R. R. Tolkien, reprints, The Lord of the Rings | Comments closed

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Tolkien: Master of Middle Earth

Brittanicus

J. R. R. Tolkien, 1892–1973

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German translation here, French translation here

Despite the universal derision of the literary establishment, which could never comprehend its inherently noble spirit, J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings was recently voted the greatest work of fiction of the twentieth century by thousands of Waterstones’ customers. The accolade is well-deserved, for Tolkien’s masterpiece is a classic of heroic romance. Read more …

Published: August 7, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Brittanicus, European identity, J. R. R. Tolkien, reprints, The Lord of the Rings | Comments closed

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The Spanish Films of Guillermo del Toro

Trevor Lynch

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Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican director whose films I have been watching since I learned he was directing The Hobbit, which is being produced by Peter Jackson, the director of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. As a LOTR fanatic, I wanted to get a sense of how Del Toro might handle The Hobbit. This is the first of three reviews I hope to write on his work so far.