Anduril Founder @PalmerLuckey:
“A lot of people say: ‘I can’t believe Palmer named his company after something from the LOTR… Tolkien hated war.’”
“Tolkien was not someone who was pro-war by any means… but he did believe in good and evil. He did believe in wars that needed to be fought.”
“One of the interesting themes of [LOTR] is how the people who live far away from Mordor, they don’t believe that these monsters exist.”
“And I think that describes a lot of Americans. You’ll talk to people that say: ‘I think that nobody’s truly evil, that nobody deserves to die.’”
“There are a lot of people on the frontlines of conflicts who don’t have the luxury of that… Someone who’s looked evil in the eye can’t pretend it doesn’t exist.”
Anduril, Flame of the West 🔥⚔️