Ep. 389 - The Lord of the Rings, The Right, and Missing the Message

About this episode

The episode discusses the misinterpretation of The Lord of the Rings by leftists and the right's obsession with the story's themes of good and evil.

Leftists all across the internet screw up what The Lord of the Rings is actually about. They believe it's about power, when it's actually about good and evil. And their own failure to identify evil is why they get the Right's (and the right) interpretation of the story so very wrong. The right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings. But they don’t understand it. | 67nj Humble Flow on X: "At the heart of The Lord of the Rings is a very simple idea: Power corrupts. Always. Not sometimes, not just for the weak, not just for the selfish. Everyone who touches the Ring is changed by it. Even the good. Especially the good. https://t.co/R7Hr6uUqCi" / X

People in this episode

Host: Justin Campbell

Topics covered

• politics
• literature
• interpretation
• good vs evil
• power
• right-wing
• left-wing

Keywords

• The Lord of the Rings
• power
• good vs evil
• political interpretation
• right-wing
• left-wing
• corruption

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Lord of the Rings

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