Posted on 07/28/2011 8:33:51 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
It has been quite a while since I read any of the four major books (among Tolkien's other books) that dealt with this saga. It has been quite a while since I have read any of Tolkien's books for that matter.
But... I do remember Mordor being a geographical location in Middle Earth, not a being or person that Hobbits "defeated," as McCain put it. I knew this the moment that I heard McCain utter his strange attack on the Tea Party. Hobbits never defeated Mordor...
I know that it doesn't matter much, geography of this and all, but if you are going to invoke "Hobbits" and "Mordor" (why McCain said all that is just plain weird) then he should have some things straight, right?
You’re right. You got me there. But they still had to carry it all the way from the shire.
I think McCain was saying he was really Wormtongue to Obama’s Sauron.
Hold your ground! Hold your ground!
Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me!
A day may come when the courage of men fails. When we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day. An hour of wolves, and shattered shields when the age of men comes crashing down!
But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear... on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!
{boy oh boy... does that fit well or what?}
Not to defend the idiot McLame, but you’re wrong.
When Gollum bites off Frodo’s finger at the Crack of Doom and falls in holding the Ring, Mordor’s Barad-dur falls, and all the other works of Sauron fall.
The hobbits DID defeat Mordor, utterly. There are a lot of pages in “The Return of the King” devoted to it. Had Sam and Frodo not had the guts to go into Mordor carrying the Ring, the West would have fallen instead.
Of course, the fact that I’ve read the trilogy at least 20 times might have something to do with my ability to remember the story.
“Nay cousin, they are not boys. Those are Periain, out of the far country of the Halflings, where they are Princes of great fame it is said. I should know, for I had one to tend in the Houses. They are small, but they are valiant. Why, cousin, one of them went with only his esquire into the Black Country and fought with the Dark Lord all by himself, and set fire to his tower, if you can believe it. At least that is the tale in the City. That will be the one that walks with our Elfstone. They are dear friends I hear.” Ioreth
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