Tolkien: Master of Middle Earth
By European: Despite the universal derison of the literary establishment, which could never comprehend its inherently noble spirit, Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings was recently[1] voted the greatest work of fiction of the 20th Century by thousands of Waterstones’ customers. The accolade is well-deserved, for Tolkien’s masterpiece is a classic of heroic romance. Drawing inspiration from traditional European mythology and from his love for the English countryside, Tolkien created an imaginary world and invented…
The Hobbit – The Negrification of Middle Earth
By Max Musson: Having never read either J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’ or ‘The Hobbit’, I cannot write as a great authority on this subject, but I am a fan of director Peter Jackson’s portrayal of these epic sagas in his recent films. An interesting aspect of the few criticisms ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy received was that there were no parts for non-Whites, and that the portrayal of evil characters…
Our Homeland
By Frederick Dixon: “One of this country’s great unappreciated achievements is that through everything – industrial revolutions, millions of people living here – still today, you can go fifteen minutes outside any British town or city and be in glorious landscape. Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. This is an intensely beautiful country that has been extremely well looked after for centuries.” Perhaps it takes someone who isn’t…