What would J.R.R Tolkien reaction have been if he knew Norwegians would be praying to Satan while naming their bands and themselves after locations in Mordor, Nazguls, names of Orc chieftains and the like?
>>130007162He'd cringe about it and move on like the rest of us
>>130007162The tolkein larpers like varg were/are all paganists "though"
>>130007162>reactionwhy would he care?
>>130007206>paganiststhat's satanism, anon."greatest trick devil ever pulled" and all that.
>>130007162most of the norwegian scene were just larping as satanists, using it fully for shock value.>>130007774>that's satanism, anon.no it's not you stupid fucking christlarp
>>130007774retard alert
>>130007774wait you believe in Satan literally?
>>130007162He was a Catholic, what do you think? He'd maybe even agree to some of the stuff that's out there.
>>130007162but that guy is Swedish
There is not much overlap between Tolkien influenced BM and explicitly satanic ones. Back in the 90's satanic ones were shitting on Tolkien ones and wanted them out of black metal.As to why are black metal people influenced by Tolkien? They were mostly nerds but it goes deeper than that. Both them and Tolkien draw from the same spiritual source and that is romanticism of 19th century, this fascination with mystic past, rejection of modernism, spiritualism and such. With the difference that black metal rejection was much more extreme and it rejected Christianity as THE force of modernism and change.As for what Tolkien would think about it, since he was an educated man and not an imageboard dweller I think he would recognize it as a youthful rebellion, a middle class intellectual and spiritual one as opposed to punks whose rebellion is very materialistic.
>>130008501>I think he would recognize it as a youthful rebellioneh like most old fucks he probably would have disapproved completely. he didn't like any rock music from the 60s.
>>130008585He would have approved and seducing youth to Satan was in fact his goal all along, as proven by Dr Ohlmarks
