What was his problem? What's wrong with people using the ring as an allegory for the atomic bomb?
>>24862544Well, they've got things like the atom bomb. So I think I'll stay where I am.
>>24862544Because the ring is actually an allegory for fascism and antisemitism
The ring represents slavery, and how, despite the economic benefits of it, it will always lead to ethnic chaos and social collapse. The moral of LotR is to throw all niggers in a volcano.
>>24862544Allegory is lazy and limiting and Tolkien was too based for allegory
>>24862544>What was his problem?He was annoyed that people discovered he got the ring idea from Wagner.
>>24862544>What's wrong with people using the ring as an allegory for the atomic bomb?Maybe the fact that the outline of the story concluding with the destruction of the One Ring was completed in 1939, while the Manhattan Project wasn't created until 1942.
>>24862544HE DOESNT MIND THAT. HE LITERALLY SAID HE PREFERS 'APPLICABILITY' TO 'ALLEGORY'
>>24862544Now that the dust has settled and with modern cultural literacy can we agree bilbo was sexually abusing young orphaned frodo
>>24863945And so the ring represents homosexuality, a cursed relic passed from older pervert to younger
