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When you consider the basis of LoTR was decrying drug abuse, how could you be surprised?

Decent drug abuse? I never saw that, nor have I heard that anywhere. I thought Tolkien was a linguist, and wanted to develop a world for the languages he had thought of.

The geography was based on Europe and Asia/Africa, but I didn’t think there was much beyond that.

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Think about the ring.

Interesting…

According to this random article I found on the internet, Tolkien didn’t intend to assign a meaning to the ring, instead leaving it open to interpretation.

https://thepeoplesmovies.com/2019/06/the-lord-of-the-rings-symbolism-of-the-ring/

Drugs / addiction was certainly a prevalent theory. Wealth was another compelling one…