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		aikinai on March 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Modern movies teach us awful lessons [video] It’s like people complaining the Lord of the Rings is just all the fantasy tropes. Well they weren’t tropes yet when Tolkien invented them.

bsder on March 12, 2022 [–]

Worse, they were counterculture. "Bored of the Rings" came out in 1969.

People also forget that fantasy tropes were "evil and satanic" up through about the 1980s.

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