It's fascinating to me the power of the spirit of an age. Lord of the Rings was in all its explicit elements a novel pining for agrarian feudalism. Yet in spite

It's fascinating to me the power of the spirit of an age. Lord of the Rings was in all its explicit elements a novel pining for agrarian feudalism. Yet in spite of this it could not help but be progressive. Were it written in the climate of today's never ending 70s tape loop, the moral would be that Frodo should never have left The Shire to begin with.