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Jack-Campin t1_iucn78k wrote

Orwell and the Inklings would have hated each other's guts. Orwell detested Christianity, but at the time he was writing the Inklings were too obscure to be worth disputing with or caricaturing. The all-out fascism of Christians like Chesterton and Belloc would have been much better known and more of a target given his Spanish Civil War experiences, but they weren't allegorized as part of 1984's landscape either.

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Fritzkreig t1_iuco61e wrote

Yes, yes I agree! Maybe I didn't write that out how I thought.

Orwell in Down and Out in Paris and London Has a quite different view of power than say Tolkien; but honestly one can find a lot of similarties about power. Perhaps just a different way to approach it.

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