Originally Posted by Burning Down

Well, he was living in a country where gays and lesbians are openly shamed and prosecuted for being so, and anything that might reflect/represent homosexuality (that would definitely be the pink shirt to them) is seriously frowned upon.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.