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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism I assume it’s a reference to how most hobbits seem to hold and manage
by vundercind 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism
I assume it’s a reference to how most hobbits seem to hold and manage productive land, or at least to be attached to a family that does.
(I’d not made the connection to distributism, but also get a similar sense of how their society is structured, just from reading The Hobbit and LOTR—but, this may be a biased perspective because we’re hanging around with some of the richest Hobbits that there are)
- markus_zhang 2y agoI guess the Shire is probably small enough to maintain such a political structure. J.R.R.Tolkein does model it with an ideal English countryside in mind, in which people like Bilbo Barkins, who are wise, participate in the politics of the community.