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To be honest, I knew next to nothing about Atlas Shrugged and The Lord of the Rings until today. Now, after reading today's Mises.org Daily Article, I know a little about both, and a lot more about their messages of freedom. A very interesting article indeed.

From Mises.org:

Tales of Titans and Hobbits

Both Rand and Tolkien passionately tell their tales about freedom, writes Juliusz Jablecki, but they resort to completely different aesthetics, and, in consequence, paint two entirely different pictures of the world, with different heroes and different challenges. Are those differences important? How do they affect the "moral" of the respective tales? Given that it is of utmost importance just what kind of story one tells, it is perhaps worthwhile to reflect upon the different world images depicted in Atlas Shrugged and The Lord of the Rings, comparing the characters of both narratives along with the predicaments they face. FULL ARTICLE