Elon Musk, JRR Tolkien and a relentless cultural and political war
Charmed by this reference to the imaginary world he reveres – before becoming an entrepreneur, Musk reportedly aspired to equal Tolkien's literary achievements – he subjected Grimes to a barrage of questions about Tolkien's works. Grimes passed the knowledge test with flying colors, as she told Musk's biographer, Walter Isaacson.
Is it necessary to introduce the author of one of the most widely read literary sagas of the 20 th century, whose film adaptations by Peter Jackson marked a generation of viewers at the turn of the millennium? Tolkien wrote a trilogy that sold millions of copies, as well as other works that are slightly less well-known, almost all of which are set in a world populated by wizards, elves, and rings of corrupting power.
Throughout their history, the peoples of Middle-earth, the name of this universe, have been threatened by a Mephistophelian sorcerer. This villain, Sauron, seeks to subjugate everyone with the local equivalent of technology: magical rings. Why is he so evil? No one truly knows. But do we know why humans so often aspire to do evil?
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