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Wormtongue looks like a prototypical politician who claims to be doing good but is really loyal to the dark lord and out for himself. How many US generals, lawyers, congressmen etc... have accepted Saudi payments and in exchange have made our country more vulnerable to attack. When I see Wormtongue I think immediately of Daschel or any number of the figures paraded on the evening news.

The good king Theoden could not see Wormtongue's true agenda. As in real life many today also cannot see the true agenda and harm that the left intends. As in Venezuela, some people may rise up only when the orcs are at the gates at which point one wonders will the defenses hold?

The scene were Saurumon and Wormtongue are in teh tower in front of the massed orc army. Those guys look like Hitler and Goebbbels at the Rally at Nuremberg. That surely was the model for that scene.

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Wormtongue looks like a prototypical politician

He reminds me of James Carville. Separated at birth...