I think you can also throw a bit of the romantic notions of knighthood, King Arthur, shit I don’t like to throw Tolkien under the bus but he probably bears some blame here too
Tolkein wrote the greatest threat to not-Britain being a race of uncivilized fundamentally evil monsters.
I love The Hobbit and LOTR (and firmly believe that anyone who claims to like the Silmarillion has someone locked up in their basement…) but there was a LOT of problematic shit in there. Nothing compared to HP “Ask Me What My Cat Was Named” Lovecraft (which, ironically, has resulted in some AMAZING queer twists on the stories) but a lot of the fucked up shit that is currently being done away with in fantasy can be tied to Tolkein.
I think you can also throw a bit of the romantic notions of knighthood, King Arthur, shit I don’t like to throw Tolkien under the bus but he probably bears some blame here too
Tolkein wrote the greatest threat to not-Britain being a race of uncivilized fundamentally evil monsters.
I love The Hobbit and LOTR (and firmly believe that anyone who claims to like the Silmarillion has someone locked up in their basement…) but there was a LOT of problematic shit in there. Nothing compared to HP “Ask Me What My Cat Was Named” Lovecraft (which, ironically, has resulted in some AMAZING queer twists on the stories) but a lot of the fucked up shit that is currently being done away with in fantasy can be tied to Tolkein.