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Which things does it mock? Tolkien served in WW1 and trained to be a code breaker in WW2. I feel he may have seen value in military technology.

• jerjerjer 1y ago
  > I feel he may have seen value in military technology. LOTR has fairly pronounced anti-industrial themes.
  • tim333 1y ago
    That was in a story about elves and wizards. I doubt in WW2 he thought it terrible that the UK could make Spitfires and break German cryptography.