And the author of this article is tying himself into a pretzel trying to absolve Tolkien of this great shame.

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What's the case for The Prince being sarcastic? I realize it's quite different from his Discourses on Livy, but I've read it as being more of a "extreme measures for an extreme situation" kind of deal. He does write in the Discourses that a sufficiently corrupted society could require a monarch using extreme and unusual means.

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