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J.R.R. Tolkien’s LOTR books have historical parallels, but their deepest meaning is as a reaction to World War I, the 1918 pandemic, and the Great Depression. Tolkien believed in hope, and Peter Jackson’s Fellowship, Two Towers, and Return of the King movies endure because they got that part right.

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