minus-squareThe Book Elf@literature.cafetoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Six arrested at protest of Palantir, tech company building deportation software for Trump adminlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-27 days agoIt makes no sense because Tolkien wouldn’t have agreed with most of them and would’ve despised how they use his legacy. I don’t think these people understood the message the books were trying to send. linkfedilink
minus-squareThe Book Elf@literature.cafetoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Six arrested at protest of Palantir, tech company building deportation software for Trump adminlinkfedilinkarrow-up26arrow-down1·18 days agoI really wish they didn’t give this thing a LotR name (Palantir), Tolkien would’ve hated it. linkfedilink
It makes no sense because Tolkien wouldn’t have agreed with most of them and would’ve despised how they use his legacy. I don’t think these people understood the message the books were trying to send.