Neat_Swim_8242 t1_jaenhn5 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 9:56 PM

It’s not that deep. They’re just books/stories. At this point you probably already own the books anyway. You’re also talking about analysing a mythology that was written before a single bullet was fired in World War 2 by today’s standards. To put into perspective as well when Tolkien started writing all women in Britain had only had the vote for less than a decade.

Im not sure if you’re just stuck in certain internet bubbles but outside of certain sections of the internet I’d say 99.9 percent of the population of every country on earth would not bat an eyelid at all (in the context of you being anti semetic) if you said you were a fan of the Lord of the Rings.

junipergardens t1_jaep1v8 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 10:06 PM

Regarding LOTR I understand the part about LOTR mythology being a mythology. But the part about books just being books, I grew up with Harry Potter and read it in middle school and started reading Tolkien last year before the pandemic, (I didn’t know it was anti demerit until people started talking about it on the internet. There wasn’t a lot of Jewish people in my life back when I read the books so I didn’t understand.