A knife-edge quest: Lord of the Rings resonates at Cop28 climate summit | Larry Elliott
by Larry Elliott from Environment | The Guardian on (#6GVJY)
Tolkien's hostility to rampant industrialisation should chime with nations represented in Dubai
Back in the 1960s, no self-respecting hippy would be seen dead without a well-thumbed copy of the Lord of the Rings. Along with a copy of Sgt Pepper and the Tibetan Book of the Dead, it came to epitomise the counterculture.
Times change. Tolkien's most prominent fan at present is Giorgia Meloni, the most rightwing prime minister Italy has had since the second world war. That has set alarm bells clanging.
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