Tolkien based the West off of Europe, the Shire off Britain, and Mordor off a combination of Germany at the time, and the Middle East. Orcs are the Muslims.
Spez: just occurred to me LOTR is one of the most nationalist books I didn't realize was even nationalist lol
Yeah looking at the map now it's laughably obvious! I'm no Tolkien scholar, and maybe someone could help me out here... But I think I recall he had some thing about English people lacking a foundational myth, and to some extent he was trying to make one?
Sometimes I wonder if he was trying to rejuvenate an English / European common ancestral memory of invasion and solidarity, for generations yet unborn. Other times I think he was working out war trauma.
What battle is this about ?
edit: It's the 2nd Siege of Vienna, DUH!
Check this out... did the 9/11 attackers choose that date to change it from a day of disgrace for islam into a day of perverted celebration? https://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/09/other-september-11th.html
And of course... WINGED HUSSARS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuJk6MDUZFM
I instantly upvote Sabaton Winged Hussars. So happy to find this here. Thx pede.
I also like the LOTR version set to same same, battle for Minas Tirith I think.
How much of LOTR is about fighting off muslims???? I never thought about it when first reading the books as a boy, but in retrospect....
Tolkien based the West off of Europe, the Shire off Britain, and Mordor off a combination of Germany at the time, and the Middle East. Orcs are the Muslims.
Spez: just occurred to me LOTR is one of the most nationalist books I didn't realize was even nationalist lol
Yeah looking at the map now it's laughably obvious! I'm no Tolkien scholar, and maybe someone could help me out here... But I think I recall he had some thing about English people lacking a foundational myth, and to some extent he was trying to make one?
Sometimes I wonder if he was trying to rejuvenate an English / European common ancestral memory of invasion and solidarity, for generations yet unborn. Other times I think he was working out war trauma.
Nevermind that... have you read the last book in the Chronicles of Narnia series, The Last Battle? Very unambiguously Christianity vs Islam.