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

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The idea that only pure people are allowed to make things, and that you are allowed to only enjoy things made by pure people, lest you become impure by enjoying them, is a childish view held by the extremists on the right and the left, and such an ignorant idea should be left to fools.

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