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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[splagxna.livejournal.com]

it's the sort of thing that makes me want to put my fist through the monitor. rrrrrrargh, i wish i had someone to throttle over that!

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Who are the other characters? Merry And Pippin are Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hanity fighting little battles along the way with humor and courage.

[sobs loudly]

[peacockharpy.livejournal.com]

*gak*

Someone send that writer a copy of Outfoxed, STAT.

[oneminutemonkey.livejournal.com]

That person is on fucking crack. Grrr.

[psychic-serpent.livejournal.com]

That is pretty bad. I'd like to think it's being done tongue in cheek, but I don't get that impression. (And Republicans have no sense of humor, anyway.)

This is really the ridiculous part, out of a host of ridiculous parts:

Who are the other characters? Merry And Pippin are Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hanity fighting little battles along the way with humor and courage.

Um, WHAT? When did Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hanity ever show one ounce of courage about ANYTHING? (Let alone humor.) And on top of that, Merry and Pippin and the Ents were a massive tract in favor of environmentalism decades before it became sexy, and Rush is about the most anti-environmentalist right wing talker there is. He has tried to claim that there are more square miles of forest in this country now than when the Declaration of Independence was signed. Um, not on the same soil, bub. There were thirteen colonies then; there are fifty states now. The way these idiots will bend any statistics to their needs is just too galling; equating Rush with anyone remotely environmentalist is just plain STUPID.

And the idiot woman doesn't know the difference between "than" and "then." [/writing pet peeve rant]

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

EEEEUUUUWWWW. I quite reading at the mention of Mortenson. Ick ick ick.

MKK

[jemyl.livejournal.com]

OK, what English teacher gave the assignment to find a "modern" movie and compare it to today's political scene?

I got as far as the fourth paragraph and decided it had to be someone's homework assignment. I also decided that I didn't want to continue reading it until I have had the opportunity to view the movies. I bought the DVD's and the are set for the next thunderstorm when the satellite goes out. Yes, I realize that the satellite only goes out for a few minutes, and it is the only way to get the movies on instead of sports for Bill, the only way without a hand fight and bed moving tantrum, that is.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Dear heavens, Peg, where did you find this?!

[harpie84.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much. Must.get.brain.bleach.NOW.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

That can't possibly be real. It's simply too over-the-top idiotic.

B

[ravenspb.livejournal.com]

I'm not so much offened as astounded. This is just one more example of "We can state our opinions because we are right. You can't because you are unpatriotic." To apply that concept to Lord of the Rings or any other type of non-contemporary fiction is demented and obsessive.

[maribou]

Okay, I couldn't get past the first paragraph because I was sitting here running the "MATT DRUDGE *SO* DOES NOT GET TO BE CALLED AN ENT" tape over and over in my brain and I didn't want any more of that kind of horrors. Eugh.

[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".

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

It's been days, and I haven't been able to get this out of my head. Forget the idiotic LOTR parallels, and think about what she's saying, what she believes. In my head she's a normal woman, with a family, and maybe with a job. She's not a radical. She's not traditionally political. Maybe she's religious, but not overly so.

How in the world have we gotten ourselves into a world where this person, and the millions like her, believe this kind of crap? And how to we get outselves out of it?

Solve this question, and you'll have done society a great goodness.

B