LOTR Movie "analogies" ?

[pegkerr]

An "interpretation" of the Lord of the Rings movies which is, perhaps, not surprising, but intensely gag-producing. For me, at least.

Okay, why mince words? Probably the most incredibly offensive I've ever seen. I would hope it would have been for Tolkien, too, who loathed allegory.

*Choke*

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[pixelfish.livejournal.com]

Tolkein might have disdained allegory, but his work was fairly tinged by the events of his lifetime. That said...this woman's attempt at allegory is....laughably bad. Or it would be if it weren't so sadly ironic.

I told my BF about the Dixie Chicks and Sean Penn being Grima Wormtongue--he'd been lying in bed, while I checked the interweb from my laptop--and he sat up straight and said, "Wouldn't it be the other way around? There were people loyal to the country that stood up to Grima, and he tried to have them kicked out or imprisoned."

My biggest snort was when she indicated that the death of liberalism and socialism would give rise to "peaceful living". So....yeah....who wanted this war in the first place? Who has one of the largest standing armies in the world? All those pacificist hippie liberals are standing in the way of peaceful living!

Second biggest snort: Gollum is the Liberal media who, in the end defeat their own purpose by exposing their inability to tell the truth, to the point of believing their own twisted lies, and as we all know, lies are exposed eventually. I trust you can see the irony.


My biggest wince was her referring to Sam as "praying Christians around the world".

[pixelfish.livejournal.com]

Another observation on how her analogy falls apart. I noticed it as I was trying to journal this:

The Ring of Power, as you no doubt will have guessed, represents liberalism and socialism. (Yes, of course. Because it was liberal hippies that boarded planes and flew them into the world trade centers, thus attacking Gondor--I mean, America. Not conservative fundamentalist Muslims. You can't say that Mordor attacking Gondor is terrorism, and then equate the Ring of Power to socialism and liberalism.)