And the author of this article is tying himself into a pretzel trying to absolve Tolkien of this great shame.

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    11 days ago

    You are an ml user. Why am I not surprised?

    Anyone trying to understand evil becomes stained with it!

    I did understand his explanations. And they don’t hold up to scrutiny. Even Tolkien’s daughter understood that.

    Priscilla Tolkien, the author’s daughter, born in 1929, commented that the “whole period of the Civil War cast a great shadow over my father’s life and is a powerful and lasting memory from my childhood.”[1]