Forum Overview :: Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number :: Ouch, terrible take

[quote name="blackwater"]Tolkien started writing Lord of the Rings in the 1930s, when the Big Bad was Hitler, not the Commies. He finished it right around the time WWII was wrapping up. At that time, the Soviets were our allies. We mostly didn't know about the death camps or the purges (well, a few American journalists in Russia knew, but they weren't telling, because journalists were shit, just like they are now.) Information travelled slower back then. Stuff was easier to hide. The American public honestly didn't know much about Hitler's death camps until American GIs stomped through them while recapturing Europe. At that point, it was hard to hide. I wish we could have done the same in Russia, but it was not to be. Anyway, you could maybe make a case that Sauron and his cronies represent Hitler and his collaborators. That would at least make sense chronologically, but it's still a bad take. The reality was that Tolkien was deeply Catholic and Sauron represents Lucifer, the fallen angel, who tries to compete with God, but ultimately only pervert and distort God's creations. Tolkien didn't want to make an allegory about Hitler, he wanted to make a story set in an idealized Middle Ages. And he succeeded at that -- making a story about the Middle Ages as they saw themselves, not as they actually were.[/quote]