Foreign Rights

Tolkien’s work is an implacable denunciation of power, seen as essentially totalitarian, the most tyrannical forms of which are explicitly condemned as being responsible for the endless violence devastating Middle-earth and its inhabitants. In recent years, however, attempts by the extreme right to hijack the Tolkienian universe have multiplied. Indeed, the strategists and intellectuals who promote the fascist parties vying for power, or who have already won it, are trying to create a culture for themselves out of nothing. Faced with the emptiness of their baggage, they appropriate a work which, as Fontenelle demonstrates it, advocates the very opposite of what fascist ideologies stand for.