|
Well, the neo-nazi's use of Tolkien's works is familiar to most of us, but its the other uses/misuses that interest me. The idea that Faramir (of all characters) word's could be used to support the gun lobby is odd (well, it is to me, but maybe not to others)
And what about all the commercialism around the movies. I don't know if Tolkien would have been appalled by the action figures, posters, jewellery, etc, or simply confirmed in his low opinion of modern society, but it is odd that his work could provide the source for such things. Its also, perhaps, odd, that the people buying all that love the world he created. Do they also love his philosophy, or do they take something else from it, something he didn't intend...
Or am I reading too much into this?
|