10 Books that had a Great Influence on me

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Ingrid Spielman challenges me to this "meme" of naming 10 books that helped shape my mental landscape. I'll be verbose, and though I'll cheat and cite more than 10 books, I will distinguish 10 of them indeed. As to propagating the meme and finding people I want to understand better, or people sufficiently similar yet sufficiently different that I

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Tolkien

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I didn't really get the impression that Tolkien was an anarchist from his works, including his published letters. He was probably against centralized government interference but his view on government seems to be a paternalist rule by an unchallenged hereditary elite. He would fit in nicely with the neo-monarchists of the dark enlightenment.

Re: Tolkien

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http://peacerequiresanarchy.wordpress.com/2012/09/21/the-letters-of-jrr-tolkien/
http://mises.org/daily/899