New York Times article:

Headline: "Italy?s hard right sees 'The Lord of the Rings' as a
sacred text."

"For the last half-century, the country?s descendants of post-Fascism
have looked to J.R.R. Tolkien?s works to reconstruct a hard-right
identity ? with symbols, heroes and creation myths free of Fascist
taboos.

"The fantasy has inspired Giorgia Meloni, who used to dress up as a
hobbit and is likely to be the next prime minister of Italy. 'I think
that Tolkien could say better than us what conservatives believe
in,' she said. 'I don?t consider ?The Lord of the Rings? fantasy.'"

Full article: <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/world/europe/giorgia-meloni-lord- of-the-rings.html>

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