"I Will Not See The White City Fall:" Billionaire's Obsession with 'The Lord of the Rings' and the Cultural Laundering of White Supremacy through Tolkien's Trilogy

INTRODUCTION The subfield of Sociology that enquires about the development and establishment of knowledge, keenly referred to as “The Sociology of Knowledge” identifies four areas of knowledge production: Experiences, Interactions/Observations, Institutions, and The Media. In the area of the media, entertainment is often lost to the other media mechanisms of news and advertisements, veiling its…