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A Horseman in Shangri-La's avatar

Am I reading this correctly, if Tolkien was trying to publish during this liquid modernity era he'd be scorned by the publishing lords?

But this doesn't seem to be wholly a modern phenomenon, it even happened way back, at least according to this link?

https://www.tolkiensociety.org/blog/2015/11/taboo-tolkien-the-nordicist-claim-on-middle-earth/

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“Doomed is the house of Nestor, doomed! For when I arrived hither in friendship and the kingdom was in danger all welcomed me, and now that thou believes the danger attenuated ye cast me out? I say to thee that thou art one and all cursed and all men shalt hold thee up as the worst of men! For where wert ye when thy noble father and I battled with the beasts of the north?”

This dialogue belongs in an Edgar Allan Poe story.

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