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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Mordor Mystery – Why does the far-right love The Lord Of The Rings?
Description: JD Vance says The Lord Of The Rings shaped his politics. Italy’s Georgia Meloni used to dress as a hobbit and go to right-wing Tolkien meet-ups. Far-right oligarch Peter Thiel named his company after a magic stone from Middle Earth. Why are right-wingers so fascinated by Tolkien? And is their fake, fascist-adjacent vision of a mystic rural paradise dangerous? New York Times columnist and self-declared Tolkien nerd David French explains all to Andrew Harrison.   Read David French’s column The Lord Of The Rings Is Not The Far Right’s Playground.  We are sp...