{"id":799298,"date":"2022-09-14T05:51:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T05:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=255035"},"modified":"2022-09-14T05:51:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T05:51:32","slug":"on-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-alt-right-trolls-and-racism-in-jrr-tolkeins-writings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/14\/on-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-alt-right-trolls-and-racism-in-jrr-tolkeins-writings\/","title":{"rendered":"On Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Alt-Right Trolls, and Racism in JRR Tolkein\u2019s Writings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prefatory Note, 2022: Last spring, after almost a decade, I rewatched the first two entries in Peter Jackson\u2019s Lord of the Rings trilogy, films which were quite dear to me during a very rough patch in high school. I quickly realized why I still enjoy the first film, Fellowship of the Ring, while finding its  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/14\/on-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-alt-right-trolls-and-racism-in-jrr-tolkeins-writings-2\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/14\/on-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-alt-right-trolls-and-racism-in-jrr-tolkeins-writings-2\/\">On Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Alt-Right Trolls, and Racism in JRR Tolkein\u2019s Writings<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prefatory Note, 2022: Last spring, after almost a decade, I rewatched the first two entries in Peter Jackson\u2019s Lord of the Rings trilogy, films which were quite dear to me during a very rough patch in high school. I quickly realized why I still enjoy t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}