Given your parenthetical, I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir here, but I’m gonna dispute that the series of novels about the fractured and imperfect nations of “the West” uniting against an alliance of barbaric monsters and uncivilized men in “the East” is apolitical at all.
Not to mention it’s a text which presupposes the divine mandate of kings, which is an explicitly political stance.
Which is not to say any of this is bad, necessarily, though I do think it would be a fun exercise in fan fiction to rewrite Aragorn’s arc. Instead of it culminating with him accepting his “birthright” and becoming king, he winds up fucking off back to the woods with his hot elf-wife and telling Gondor to sort their own shit out.
For me:
Political - Spotlight, but 12 Angry Men is also excellent
Apolitical (like that exists) - Inception, I guess? The Lord Of The Rings trilogy?
Given your parenthetical, I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir here, but I’m gonna dispute that the series of novels about the fractured and imperfect nations of “the West” uniting against an alliance of barbaric monsters and uncivilized men in “the East” is apolitical at all.
Not to mention it’s a text which presupposes the divine mandate of kings, which is an explicitly political stance.
Which is not to say any of this is bad, necessarily, though I do think it would be a fun exercise in fan fiction to rewrite Aragorn’s arc. Instead of it culminating with him accepting his “birthright” and becoming king, he winds up fucking off back to the woods with his hot elf-wife and telling Gondor to sort their own shit out.
Oh yeah, that’s all there, and more; don’t even get me started on The Silmarillion.