In the stories the forces of Suron were sometimes refered to geographically as the forces ‘of Mordor’. Just as we might say that in WW2 we defeated ‘Germany’ instead of just Hitler or Nazism.
Now we know where Meghan gets her smarts from.
DC is about the guns and butter and old guns John is trying to cross the isle and join with the butters and bring the old guns and butter band back together like the old days.
A hobbit destroyed Mordor’s source of power and it collapsed.
We hobbits need to destroy Washington’s source of power - our money.
How about the al-Qaeda Muslim Brotherhood Hobbits McCain and Graham want to arm in Libya? Is that OK?
This whole analogy is rich and worth our time to consider.
Was the author implying that Washington is like Mordor? Or only that the Teaparty wrongly think Washington is like Mordor?
Was the author implying that the average american taxpayer is like a hobbit (traditional, loyal, simple, happy, honest, agrarian, brave, charitable...) or only that we fancy ourselves as such?
Interesting...
McCain... weren’t the hobbits the good guys who saved the world?
I’m sure he neither read the books nor saw any of the movies. Somebody told him it would be cool to say. It wasn’t. Useful idiot.
Hey McStain! Two scruffy Hobbits threw the ring of power into the crack of doom and thereby defeated one of the biggest, baddest and ugliest tyrants of middle earth.
Now sit down and shut up you senile old freak!
I think McCain was saying he was really Wormtongue to Obama’s Sauron.
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