Tolkien got the main symbols in The Hobbit from Richard Wagner’s Ring cycle, but he was testy and sensitive whenever Wagner’s name was mentioned. The problem was Wagner’s anti-Semitism. The English had a long history of philo-Semitism that did not mesh with Wagner’s views, leading to an artistic conflict that Tolkien could not resolve, and ultimately to an incoherent book. In purging Wagner’s symbols of their anti-Semitism, Tolkien purged them of their meaning as well, for the real issue in Wagner’s Das Rheingold is capitalism, not anti-Semitism. And if Capitalism is the real issue, England must be the villain, which is unacceptable to Tolkien, an English patriot. Once rearranged to suit English sensibilities, though, those symbols lose their power, meaning, and coherence. After reading renowned cultural critic E. Michael Jones’s intellectual tour de force, you’ll never view Tolkien’s saga the same.
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Eugene Michael Jones
Eugene Michael Jones (1948–) é um escritor americano, professor aposentado, comentador midiático e atual editor da revista Culture Wars. É conhecido por suas publicações a respeito do declínio da cultura católica nos EUA a partir da segunda metade do século XX e sua assimilação pela cultura americana de massa. Escreveu prolificamente sobre a revolução sexual, a história da Igreja, os judeus, o poder financeiro e a modernidade. Dentre seus muitos livros, constam os mais conhecidos Degenerate Moderns: Modernity as Rationalized Sexual Misbehavior, e sua seqüência Dionysos Rising: The Birth of Cultural Revolution out of the Spirit of Music, bem como The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Impact on World History.
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