Count Dankula: Absolute Mad Lads
J. R. R. Tolkien
2026 • E8 Jun 11, 2026 83m
Evola believed that a nation's myths can often tell you much more about them than their actual real history. The stories that they tell provide invaluable insights into how they see themselves and their sense of time and place in the world. Through myth one could glean a people's identity, their values, their enemies and fears, and their collective ambitions. Here in Britain, we already have a couple of own myths from both our Germanic and Romantic heritage. But there is a myth maker who was apocryphily said to have set out to create a mythology for England. And in this modern world that we unfortunately find ourselves in, its chief themes of nostalgia and entropy resonated to the tune of well over 100 million copies sold. And an entire genre as we know it shaped in its image. All because with the idle stroke of a pen, one author revolted against the modern world by reminding the English people of who they are. In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit. Professor J.R.R. Tolkien.