I’m torn. Both Galadriel and Sauron say the other is a threat to Middle-earth. One has to be wrong, so whom am I to trust? Should I trust the Dark Lord who attempted to topple the White City of Gondor, dominate all life, and attempt to stay in power for eternity? Or do I trust the Elf Queen representing the coalition of Men and Elves who defeated Sauron when he tried to enslave the Free Peoples… but could maybe do more meet-and-greets?
Looks like the orcs are out in force tonight
I’d really like it if midwest.social would defed from hexbear. It’s a nice instance, but the comment sections are often a disaster.
Yeah, I swear I just heard one of them say “Looks like Geek is back on the menu, boys!”
I didn’t even know orcs had restaurants? How do they know what a menu is?!
You should focus all your attention on the genocide of the horsemen of Rohan, and absolutely ignore the much larger genocide of the people of Gondor because they should have just surrendered to mordor in the beginning to have peace. Also mordor didn’t encourage that other genocide to distract from their genocide at all.
Signed
A concerned citizen from somewhere outside mordor like St. Brandywinesburg.
I was under impression that Sauron was for order through subjugation, not chaos.
But in any case that would just make the allegory more fitting.
I don’t know that Sauron had an ideology per se, more just power for the sake of power. Which allegorically is pretty spot on I think.
Both sides are bad because the elves had rings and Sauron had a ring. See, both the same!
She wants to fill your farmland with trees! Useless trees! No more taters or pipe weed! Good luck digging a new burrow with all those roots. Speaking of roots, did you hear about the Ents? All they do is destroy our towns, ripping our dams apart so they can drink all our water. Horrible, horrible creatures, and they will tread all over your flower gardens if you let this self-centered “elf queen” have her way!
Way too coherent, try again
The dark lord has neither a healthy body nor a healthy mind. He’s spying on you all. With hiX all-seeing eye.
But as Elrond told a hobbit before:
Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world, Small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.’
I would to vote for someone who isn’t immortal but NOOOO that’s throwing my vote away
When in doubt go for chaos… NO DONT I AM KIDDING
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Okay but the real question being asked is “which of the two should we give the One Ring too?”
And the answer may surprise you!
Literally the message of Tolkien’s writing, yes. The good guys sought to destroy power, not wield it.
