24 years ago, a nation on edge after the attacks of September 11th went to the movies.
To watch The Fellowship of the Ring.
Americans saw themselves in J.R.R.
Tolkien's tale of good and evil and hobbits.
And why not?
of good guys and good elves and good dwarves trying to restore peace to the world by destroying the one ring.
Americans love and love to be the good guys.
Then in the great political upheaval of the last decade or so,
some people on the right claimed the mantle of the Lord of the Rings as their own.
But did they misunderstand the message?
Coming up on Today Explained from Vox,
why those books and those movies still resonate in a nation still on edge?
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