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Was Tolkien dissing the Nazis and their bastardizing the term "aryan"? Odin2005 Jun 2012 #1

Yes, he's toying with the supermen. mgc1961 Jun 2012 #2

Odin2005

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1. Was Tolkien dissing the Nazis and their bastardizing the term "aryan"?

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Sun Jun 17, 2012, 12:08 AM

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mgc1961

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2. Yes, he's toying with the supermen.

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Sun Jun 17, 2012, 08:09 AM

Jun 2012

He clearly thinks their ham-handed inquiry is beneath someone of his academic merit and he's letting them know it while simultaneously preserving a respectable position for non-Aryians, or more specifically, Jews.