This is what happens when you are too comfortable and your life has zero fucking friction whatsoever. I don’t wish anyone any undue adversity but holy shit, with people like this, can you please live in the real world where things have consequences.
Plot-wise, Ukraine has less to do with Lord of the Rings and more with Lord of the Flies
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You know, I’ve always identified more with Orcs and Sauron than the men and elves.
I can see that, and respect it. Myself, I always saw Gondor as Yugoslavia and Mordor as the USA. Though that messes with the geography of Middle Earth quite a bit.
The politics of Lord of the Rings and J.R.R Tolkien more generally are actually really interesting.
Tolkien’s politics come from an era where Industrialism was seen to be contrary to the Conservative establishment. The forces of “Good” in Middle Earth (the Elves, Dwarves, Gondor, the Shire, etc.) represent this Conservative establishment (in many forms) while the forces of “Evil” (Orcs, Saruman, Sauron) represent not Socialism but Industrialism and Liberalism (and to some extent, Capitalism) - an abandonment of traditional values in favor of the accumulation of personal power., a degradation of morality and personal dignity.
Tolkien was a fascinating man. Some of his politics were ahead of his time, whereas other times there was a lot of “back in the day” style racism shining through. Like the elves being perfect beautiful white people, while the orcs and “evil men” were all explicitly asiatic.
so usa would be gollum? is disgusting, aggresive, and is getting in another people’s business without being called
