stenAanden@feddit.dk to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoTIL Tolkien supported fascist Spainwww.josemanuelferrandez.comexternal-linkmessage-square92linkfedilinkarrow-up1112file-text
arrow-up1112external-linkTIL Tolkien supported fascist Spainwww.josemanuelferrandez.comstenAanden@feddit.dk to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square92linkfedilinkfile-text
And the author of this article is tying himself into a pretzel trying to absolve Tolkien of this great shame.
minus-squarePoloniousmonk@autistics.lifelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days ago@eurodyne Man, we could spiral on this. Misery was the last of his that I read. I tried “The Girl Who Loved tom Gordon” but threw it across the room. Everybody with arts money did coke balls to the wall back then. The smart ones grew out of it.
minus-squareeurodyne@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoI’m not here to debate the virtues of mountains of coke-- just how pissed I am at wasting the time of burning through 1000 pages of bullshit. perhaps I should be blaming his editors. whatever.
@eurodyne
Man, we could spiral on this. Misery was the last of his that I read. I tried “The Girl Who Loved tom Gordon” but threw it across the room.
Everybody with arts money did coke balls to the wall back then. The smart ones grew out of it.
I’m not here to debate the virtues of mountains of coke-- just how pissed I am at wasting the time of burning through 1000 pages of bullshit. perhaps I should be blaming his editors. whatever.