Stefan Urbanek Stiivi

What makes §213 of Magnifica Humanitas such a pointed gesture is not just that Pope Leo XIV quotes Tolkien, but which Tolkien he quotes, and what political/cultural terrain that quotation crosses in doing so. Three claimants to Middle-earth, three radically different readings.

The Pope's Tolkien (§213). Leo XIV pulls from Gandalf's speech at the Last Debate in The Return of the King: "It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till." He then glosses it in his own voice: "The civilization of love will not arise from a single or spectacular gesture, but from the sum total of small and steadfast acts of fidelity that serve as a bulwark against dehumanization." The context is an encyclical on AI and the threat of dehumanization, and the rhetorical move is anti-mastery: against the demiurgic temptation to seize the le

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