Editing Morlock (section)

===In non-fiction===
In [[Neal Stephenson]]'s essay on modern culture [[wikt:vis-à-vis|vis-à-vis]] [[operating system]] development, ''[[In the Beginning... was the Command Line]]'', he demonstrates similarities between the future in ''[[The Time Machine]]'' and contemporary American culture.<ref name="Stephenson">{{cite web|url = http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html|title = In the Beginning was the Command Line|first = Neal|last = Stephenson|year = 1999|access-date = 2008-08-27|archive-date = 2018-02-18|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180218045352/http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html|url-status = dead}}</ref> He claims that most Americans have been exposed to a "corporate monoculture" which renders them "unwilling to make judgments and incapable of taking stands." Anyone who remains outside of this "culture" is left with powerful tools to deal with the world, and it is they, rather than the neutered [[Eloi]], that run things.

[[J. R. R. Tolkien]] mentioned Morlocks three times in his 1939 essay ''[[On Fairy-Stories]]'', which discusses the genre now called [[fantasy]]. The first reference occurs where Tolkien attempts to define the genre, and he suggests that the Morlocks (and Eloi) place ''The Time Machine'' more in the genre than do the Lilliputians in ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]''. He reasoned that the Lilliputians are merely diminutive humans, whereas the Morlocks and Eloi are significantly different from us, and "live far away in an abyss of time so deep as to work an enchantment". Another reference to the creatures of ''The Time Machine'' occurs in the essay's section "Recovery, Escape, Consolation". Here it's argued that fantasy offers a legitimate means of escape from the mundane world and the "Morlockian horror of factories". Elsewhere in his essay, Tolkien warns against separating fantasy readers into superficial categories, using the Eloi and Morlocks as a dramatic illustration of the repercussions of sundering the human race.<ref>Tolkien, J.R.R., ''[[Tree and Leaf]]'', 2nd edition, Unwin Paperbacks, pp. 19, 64 & 48; {{ISBN|0 04 820015 8}}</ref>