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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

That’s ridiculous. The Maiar are CIA.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you look at Shire, you will see bucolic agrarian utopia... only if you look a second time you will see that Bilbo and Frodo are literal kulaks, never working a day in their life, just exploiting people like Sam Gamgee (who was also kind of a house slave and class traitor), a lot of it is ran by kulak families like Tooks and Brandybucks. We never see the point of view of average hobbit, the one that works so mister Baggins, Took, Brandybuck can enjoy their parasite lifes.

And so the story indeed is that three kulak failsons and class traitor went on adventurism to put the ~~tsar~~ king over themselves. Just like the compradors of 3rd world countries do vassalise their states to the US empire (though by the time the story was written it was still mostly British empire).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Who ever listed them as being anarchists? The Hobbits are among the last parts of the Kingdom of Arnor, and there are comments that they have taxes, but when nobody bothered picking them up, the elected mayor of the Shire and the leaders of the four farthings reinvested those taxes into whatever projects they saw most fit. Plus, there's a whole aristocracy. There's the related familes like Bagginses, Sackvilles, Proudfeet, Boffins, Brandybucks, Tooks; and there's some others who they're not related to as well.

The hobbits are literally the final remnant culture of a kingdom. And when you consider what happened to them with Saruman and Wormtongue in the Scourging, they'd much rather be under the King and have the military support of Gondor and its allies.

Now, if you want an anarchist place with hobbits, we could talk about Bree. But Bree is much smaller.