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1 posted on 04/03/2020 7:47:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I thoroughly enjoyed the LOTR series.


2 posted on 04/03/2020 7:55:09 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Don't cough on your keyboard because everybodys virus protection may not be updated.)
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Funny they haven’t compared Trump to Sauron. He’d have to be The Orange, of course, and would use a gold 3-wood as a staff :-)


4 posted on 04/03/2020 8:20:01 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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The One Ring could not be tamed, but must be utterly destroyed at the very source of its creation: Mount Doom. And in Middle-earth it is the least-likely people, hobbits and dwarves ... Frodo, Samwise, Thorin and company ... that accept the quest to do so

Not to be picky, but Thorin lived and died without knowing of the ring. He was on a quest with Bilbo to kill a dragon. The ring was found by Bilbo on that quest, but kept hidden. The ring was destroyed on a later quest by Frodo and Sam.

5 posted on 04/03/2020 8:40:15 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

P4L


6 posted on 04/03/2020 8:51:10 PM PDT by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: nickcarraway

The quests are mixed up here. Thorin and company were on a quest to regain his kingdom under the mountain in The Hobbit.

Frodo, Sam and the other 7 including the dwarf Gimli son if Gloin were on the quest to destroy the ring.

Tolkein adamantly argued that his work not be used as allegory, which seems exactly what this article did.


8 posted on 04/04/2020 9:50:26 AM PDT by Wneighbor (Weaponize your cell phone! Call your legislators every week.)
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