Ohh, I thought it was for depicting magic, but racism is another angle.
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ah, yea i can imagine the old days fascist right wing "christian" banning of tolkien for those dirty talismans and such, and the palantir and so on
what i loved about it, didn't even read the whole thing until years later, was the dwarven runes and the elvish script lol... same thing for me with the Dark Crystal... all those crazy astrological/gnostic geometry things
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