5. Ok I read it...i agree with mostly everything...but this line...
"there is Tolkein and that group of middle-class Christian fantasists who constantly sing the praises of bourgeois virtues and whose villains are thinly disguised working class agitators -- fear of the Mob permeates their rural romances."
How does he get that the Orcs/Saruman/Sauron are working class agitators? Surely the hobbits are much more working class than them? Yes of course LOTR adulates monarchy, but I couldn't really see much in the way of promoting bourgeois virtues.
of course I'm no Michael Moorcock, so what do i know? :shrug:
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