One of the biggest changes for me post retirement (which I hope doesnt mean I am turning into an alkie)🤣 is the desire and ability to enjoy a Guinness on any day. At work in the University I didn't drink during the day - contact with students and complex meetings precluded that). Now I do it when I choose, if I have walked the calories off beforehand and eat with it. |
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Responding to Culture Wars on Tolkien
Tolkien got the main symbols in The Hobbit from Richard Wagner’s Ring cycle,*
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Obviously, omitting things that Wagner had in common with Norse sources that Tolkien could read directly without Wagner (and the actual Wagner fan CSL in addition to Wagner).
Dragon, hoard, dwarf, talking bird, do not count. These are all in the Norse sources as well.
* From "The West Has Failed: Tolkien, Traditionalism and Islamophobia" January 06, 2026/ E. Michael Jones, in Culture Wars
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