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Titolo: non voglio rimpolpare l'annosa questione...

..è solo per far notare che belle figure che facciamo nel mondo. O che
masturbazioni mentali si fanno in inghilterra, non so...
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SUNDAY TELEGRAPH(LONDON), March 26, 2000, Sunday 
Italian fascists take Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf hostage 
by NICK FARRELL in Rome 
TO MOST of the millions of people who eagerly await the film version
of J. R. R. Tolkien's trilogy The Lord of the Rings, hairy-footed
hobbits are lovable little things whose main interest in life is roast
mutton, not politics. 
It might, therefore, come as a shock that in Italian fascist and
far-Right circles Bilbo Baggins has become a cult figure who
epitomises all that they hold most dear. 
The three-part film of the mythical struggle between good and evil,
starring Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf, the wizard, and billed as the
next Star Wars, began production at Wellington, New Zealand, in
October and is due for release at the end of next year. Italian
fascists are irritated that Gandalf is being portrayed by Sir Ian, a
homosexual activist. But they regard the struggle of the grey wizard
and his hobbit friends to defeat the evil prince of darkness, Sauron,
as similar to their own struggle against communism and globalisation.
No fascist bookshop is complete without a copy of The Lord of the
Rings, alongside Hitler's Mein Kampf. Italy's leading Tolkieniano,
Gianfranco de Turris, who wrote the introduction to the 1991 Italian
translation of Humphrey Carpenter's official biography of Tolkien,
said: "In Tolkien you find exalted all the values that fascists and
the traditional Italian Right admire: spirituality, community,
comradeship, order, adventure, heroism, a warrior spirit, the struggle
against evil, a sense of duty and of mission, the heroism of the
ordinary man; in fact all those values unknown to or rejected by
contemporary western society." 
Mr de Turris, who said he was not a fascist but of the traditional
Right, added: "The Lord of the Rings offers a sceptical and
demythologised society a believable myth." 
To those of a non-fascist persuasion, no doubt, it is difficult to see
what hobbits such as Bilbo Baggins, played by the American Ian Holm,
and Benito Mussolini, the founder of fascism, have in common except
their small stature. Hobbits are said to be half the size of men and
Mussolini at 5ft 6in was rather on the short side. And unlike hobbits,
who were hairy, he was bald. It also dovetails with many fascists'
beliefs that the evil creatures in The Lord of the Rings, who wear
black cloaks, have black skins while the good guys - elves, most
dwarves and hobbits - have white skins. 
But there is much more to this fascist fascination with Il Signore
degli Anelli and Lo Hobbit, as they are known in Italy, than the
colour of skin. 
Tolkien (1893-1973) would no doubt have responded with a weary shrug
to the admiration of fascists for the mythical world he created. He
was a Right-wing conservative Roman Catholic but no fascist. 
Yet his world view was similar in many ways to that of fascists. He
exalted order, hierarchy, the countryside and a mythical past where
hobbits were engaged in a heroic quest against all the odds; a world
where the boundaries between good and evil were absolute - not
relative as many on the Left would have it. He despised
industrialisation and modernisation as did many, though not all,
fascists. 
Italian fascist fascination with The Lord of the Rings began in 1970
when Rusconi, the Right-wing publishing house, first published it in
Italian. 
Italy's mainly Left-wing publishing and media world had dismissed it
as reactionary bourgeois escapism and would not touch it. 
Despite, or perhaps because of, the cold-shoulder by Italy's ruling
cultural elite and the mainly hostile reviews the work received, it
became an instant best-seller. 
Indeed, so taken were Italian fascists with Tolkien that they even
began to organise Hobbit Camps and scrawl pro-hobbit graffiti on
walls. 
The Left, meanwhile, bought into the same orthodoxy and rejected
Tolkien as "fascist". Which was something of an irony - in other
countries such as America and Britain it was the Left, largely in the
shape of hippies, who adored Tolkien. 
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saluti
ShanPu

masturbazioni mentali si fanno in inghilterra, non so...
+ che altro la seconda
E.. vai tranquillo che altrove si fa di peggio: la Tolkienology non e'
certto nata in Italia
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 ShanPu
consiglierei al sunday telegraph di fornirsi di notizie ANSA posteriori
a quella sul primo campo Hobbit, ormai rimangono solo e la Aspesi a
pensare a Tolkien come fascista
Glaurg,#101 dei FeStOSi
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 Italian fascists take Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf hostage 
Che tristezza.
L'articolo e` di un fazioso da far spavento, ma va a toccare tutti o 
quasi gli "scripta manent" di cui possiamo vergognarci (come italiani) 
ma che non potremo mai cancellare (intendo proprio nel senso di 
"delete").
Cavolo quanto fanno male gli scheletri negli armadi...
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Beleg - #1 deI FeSTosi (per rispondere togli .bl)
"Ahime`! Vi sono ferite che non guariscono mai del tutto!"

 
mmm, allora ho capito male l'articolo, evviva la conoscienza infima 
dell'inglese!
Glaurg, #101 dei FeStOSi
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 Michael Ende (ma non vorrei sbagliare, non conosco le sue opere).
Davvero????
Atreju è l´amico che protegge Bastian nel viaggio in Fantasia. Ma che c´entra Michael
Ende, la Storia Infinita ??? Che c´entra coi fascistelli????
Ma hanno presente chi era Michael Ende? Che suo padre era un´artista (scultore-incisore)
di chiara ispirazione anti-nazista (credo dovette scappare all´epoca...)? Che la moglie di
Michael è sepolta al cimitero acattolico di Roma (o ´degli inglesi`) a Piramide vicino
alla tomba di Togliatti (o di Gramsci? Aiuto, l´arterio avanza impetuosa...)?
No, è vero che siamo solo noi italiani che lasciamo che una parte politica si appropri di
idee, personaggi storici, letteratura a proprio uso, consumo e propaganda. Forme di
pubblicità strisciante che mi fanno schifo (più per l´idea in sè che per i risultati, per
fortuna ). Bleah.
Ende scrive storie per ragazzi (Jim Bottone, Momo, racconti vari) senza secondi fini; ma
vi consiglio Lo specchio nello specchio, che è un capolavoro assoluto (difficile,
surreale, ma profondissimo).
In culo ai viscidi (e ai manipolatori di fascistelli)
Tschüß
Marco

 Ende scrive storie per ragazzi
Ende scrive storie per adulti; gli adulti come al solito pensano sia roba
per ragazzi. Momo non è certo rivolto ai bambini, nemmeno La storia
infinita.
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