NP "the formerly colonised coming back to haunt us"

[jbor]

on 18/12/02 11:22 AM, CyrusGeo at netscape.net at CyrusGeo at netscape.net wrote:

>> And one might further ask, what similar resonances
>> make it "catchy" now?  The "universal," "timeless" war
>> ("war") betwixt ("betwixt"?) "good" and "evil"?  Will
>> be seeing The Two Towers tomorrow, so ...
> 
> Yes, the everlasting conflict between good and evil is such a universal and
> timeless theme, present in all human cultures throughout the ages. But why am
> I saying that? You know it.

I think the insinuation here was that the movie's production, release and/or
popularity now deliberately coincide with international anti-terrorism, the
mooted US-led war on Iraq etc. As a sort of subliminal propaganda ...? I'm
not sure I agree. The three movies were all filmed simultaneously, and
planning and pre-production, if not the actual filming also, were all in
place long before Sept 11 2001.

The early fantasy tales which Tolkien developed into _The Lord of the Rings_
were written while he was serving in the trenches in WWI, not WWII. _The
Hobbit_ was first published in 1937.

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