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6/14/2025, 10:53:40 AM
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>>6258063
>TOLKIEN IS SACRED, continued
I feel like these days he has been sullied by Peter Thiel naming endless investment portfolio / defense companies after Palantir, Anduril, Mithril, Narya, Valar Ventures, Rivendell, Lembas LLC etc lol how is this permitted by the Tolkien estate without copyright litigation lol, I think corporations and funds naming themselves after fantasy franchises is always a warning sign it reminds me of the financial crisis wasn't one of the Big Short traders Michael Burry a huge fan of Shannara fantasy series, and he named his subprime short fund after the books hehe. I mentioned it before but I remember watching Return Of The King in the cinema in 2003 witnessing the Aragorn Men Of The West mordor charge meme scene lol and thinking, this is going to inspire a war someday hehe. My understanding in the Gygax era Tolkien was once part of the peaceful hallucinogenic psychedelic 1960s counterculture ? (those Peter Jackson hobbits and pipes lol) it is bizarre to observe his ideology enfolded by defense tech companies nowadays argh
Having read most of his Anglo Saxon inspirations such as Beowulf or Gildas or the Battle Of Maldon poem etc I actually possess much less respect for Tolkien, you can see his works are somewhat simplistic and derivative of the language and historical sentiments from those ancient voices (and I honestly think Bernard Cornwell does better as a historical writer with similar Dark Ages source material than Tolkien, Bernard Cornwell has more RAPE and battles versus Tolkien who is turgid and constricted and dull)
The value of a lot of fantasy settings is it lets you access deeper historical legends. If you know the legend of Marsyas the flayed satyr and the Nietzschean notion of Apollonian Dionysian conflict (Marsyas as a sacrifice punishment to symbolise the triumph of the Hellenistic pantheon over pagan mother goddess Cybele etc) then when Cultist Simulator launches into its occult Golden Bough god sacrifice nonsense it is sort of more understandable and contextually situated lol, similarly to the extent that Tolkien interests his audience in some of the lessons of Beowulf or the Dark Ages I guess he is useful hehe
So I think the value of game worldbuilding lore is the extent to which it can illuminate and unravel hidden real world historical knowledge, cultural myths, ideologies, this is part of the MORAL PURPOSE
>>6258063
>TOLKIEN IS SACRED, continued
I feel like these days he has been sullied by Peter Thiel naming endless investment portfolio / defense companies after Palantir, Anduril, Mithril, Narya, Valar Ventures, Rivendell, Lembas LLC etc lol how is this permitted by the Tolkien estate without copyright litigation lol, I think corporations and funds naming themselves after fantasy franchises is always a warning sign it reminds me of the financial crisis wasn't one of the Big Short traders Michael Burry a huge fan of Shannara fantasy series, and he named his subprime short fund after the books hehe. I mentioned it before but I remember watching Return Of The King in the cinema in 2003 witnessing the Aragorn Men Of The West mordor charge meme scene lol and thinking, this is going to inspire a war someday hehe. My understanding in the Gygax era Tolkien was once part of the peaceful hallucinogenic psychedelic 1960s counterculture ? (those Peter Jackson hobbits and pipes lol) it is bizarre to observe his ideology enfolded by defense tech companies nowadays argh
Having read most of his Anglo Saxon inspirations such as Beowulf or Gildas or the Battle Of Maldon poem etc I actually possess much less respect for Tolkien, you can see his works are somewhat simplistic and derivative of the language and historical sentiments from those ancient voices (and I honestly think Bernard Cornwell does better as a historical writer with similar Dark Ages source material than Tolkien, Bernard Cornwell has more RAPE and battles versus Tolkien who is turgid and constricted and dull)
The value of a lot of fantasy settings is it lets you access deeper historical legends. If you know the legend of Marsyas the flayed satyr and the Nietzschean notion of Apollonian Dionysian conflict (Marsyas as a sacrifice punishment to symbolise the triumph of the Hellenistic pantheon over pagan mother goddess Cybele etc) then when Cultist Simulator launches into its occult Golden Bough god sacrifice nonsense it is sort of more understandable and contextually situated lol, similarly to the extent that Tolkien interests his audience in some of the lessons of Beowulf or the Dark Ages I guess he is useful hehe
So I think the value of game worldbuilding lore is the extent to which it can illuminate and unravel hidden real world historical knowledge, cultural myths, ideologies, this is part of the MORAL PURPOSE
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