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Are Tolkien’s dwarves an allegory for the Jews?

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Post by Hellsangel Thu Dec 26, 2013 11:11 am

http://www.timesofisrael.com/are-tolkiens-dwarves-an-allegory-for-the-jews/ wrote:When Tolkien published “The Hobbit” in 1937, the Zionist dream of a Jewish homeland – not to mention the Holocaust – was still on the horizon. Educated at Oxford, devout Roman Catholic Tolkien served as a signals officer during World War I, and saw action at the notorious Battle of the Somme, one of humanity’s bloodiest.
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Post by bw Thu Dec 26, 2013 10:52 pm

Hellsangel wrote:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/are-tolkiens-dwarves-an-allegory-for-the-jews/ wrote:When Tolkien published “The Hobbit” in 1937, the Zionist dream of a Jewish homeland – not to mention the Holocaust – was still on the horizon. Educated at Oxford, devout Roman Catholic Tolkien served as a signals officer during World War I, and saw action at the notorious Battle of the Somme, one of humanity’s bloodiest.

oh, really? and smaug is the current palestine?


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