Frodo lost Bush has the ring

#1 More realistically in this scenario, the U.S. would be Mordor because we are certainly acting more along those lines these days.

#2 Santorum needs to not even think about LOTR. He needs to leave it alone. He doesn't deserve to even be allowed to read or watch it, let alone draw analogies between it and this unecessary and tragic catstrophe that he helped create in Iraq by supporting der Fuhrer as ardently as he's done. I live in PA and I will be having a huge party when he gets beaten next month. And maybe I'll make it an LOTR themed-event for posterity.....

If there is an analogy between Iraq and LOTR, then the USA is most certianly Mordor. Sauron sends his armies to Gondor, so that he won't have to face Gondorian attacks in Mordor. I'm sure the terrorists in 9/11 saw themselves as small heroic figures sneaking across the border to attack an incredibly powerful enemy.

There was a photoshop cartoon being sent around the net a few years ago, with Bush wearing the One Ring, and the caption "Frodo has failed..."

'Hordes' of Tolkien fans are also likely to swarm around blatant misspellings of 'Hobbit' and 'Middle-earth' as well as people who criticize before researching; Eye of Mordor is a perfectly acceptable term (http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Eye_of_Mordor).

Ho, Ho, Ho! Well thousands of hippies, aging maybe, but still young at heart, who have been sickened by the hipocrisy of America and Britains atrocities in Iraq, will now be in total disgust by R.Santorum's epistle, maybe he needs to read The Lord of the Rings and get the gist of the story before likening Iraq and the US to Tolkiens work. Tolkien a true christian with a message, not like Bush, a possible antichrist as some would say, truth evades him!

Why I might wonder does it require a Tolkien buff to think about the Lord of Rings in connection with the US. Still to consider president George W. Bush in the same vain as Aragon strikes me as mistaken and even absurd. Bush covets power like no president since Richard Nixon, while Aragon refused the ring of power when it was presented to him—his motto is he must first learn to be true to himself. Bush is the one who has removed legal barriers erected between the various intelligence agencies to protect the constitutional rights of Americans and this consolidation of power has been done by means of the innocent sounding and somewhat secretive term “seamless”. (I guess “seamless” is a kind of pun) This has the effect of bringing the military and CIA into the domain of local and state law enforcement as well as federal and thus could make these concepts obsolete, it is a way of saying we no longer separate the military and CIA from state and local law enforcement and consequently anyone taken into custody by say the military or CIA do not fall under state and local ordinances but rather some other concept of detainment without the necessities of due process or even such reasoning as legal grounds for detainment other than its a matter of national security. They have supra-national powers. (In other words Bush is devious or if you prefer the Tolkien vocabulary, he's evil). In this sense Bush is more similar to a Soviet Premier than a leader in a liberal democracy. The Bush realm is darkness (secrecy), lies, dogmatic propaganda, war without any need for an act of aggression towards us—or if you prefer the NEW Speak and more sweet sounding “preemptive” warfare, which in fact is nothing more and nothing less than tyranny. Bush speaks of democracy when what he means is a totalitarian like society and liberal use of the military and secret police. Unilateralism means one minded decisions made by an all powerful president who decides whom to kill, whom to torture, whom to attack and so on. It is a sort of Caesar concept which will undermine and destroy not only the USA but the entire world system as we have known it. That does seem to have a one ring to rule them all and in the darkness bind them sort of a twist to it. So George Bush has far more in common with Sauron than Aragon. The only similarity that I see between Aragon the character and Bush the president is that they both are males. I mean Aragon is presented as this rugged and hardened man, living in banishment while he attempts to win over the will of men to take their stand against the tyranny of Mordor. He doesn't glitter but he is gold in that he is true. Bush is a person who isn't banished (at least not yet) but rather he is a man who has had all doors opened to him not because he has earned his keeps but rather because the influence his family has. Thus his military service is built on exceptions, we are at war but he goes into the reserves to become a fighter pilot but then fails to take a test and gets grounded loosing his wings but he still manages to get an honorable discharge or his entrance to Yale or Harvard must be exceptions to the rule because he is either a C student as he claims or a liar about his grades. How many graduate students get into Harvard who were C students in their under graduate studies or who goes to Yale as a C student from high school? In fact his entire career seems to be give me this Daddy, give me that Daddy and with each give me he manages to destroy what he has been given or abuses the privilege in someway demanding a cover up and at present he is president because of an exception concerning the election laws in 2000 and with this latest give me he is in the process of destroying the lives of 25 million Iraqis, 25 million Afghanis as well as 300 million Americans while he weakens the entire structure of American security (our system of alliances and trading partners) because this system cannot be sure whether it can trust the true ambitions of the US. In other words the question of whether the United States is still the United States of America and not the Sauron of America has become a question the international community is taking seriously.

Um . . . attention liberals: you guys are so absorbed in your own hate, you don't even realize how ridiculous you all sound. The United States will never be the Stalinist paradise you all seek, so have some lembas and chill out, for God's sake.

JRR Tolkien thought Americans were all idiots. How do I know? I read it in the best insight to the great authors life published for free on www.jtolkien.com check it out won't cost you a cent.

The above poster "Martin Michaels" is actually a man by the name of "Christopher Carrie" or "Chris Carrie"

10 Facts about Christopher Carrie

1 – Carrie has a criminal record which would prevent him working with children or vulnerable adults.
2 – Carrie is a fraudster who has tried for many years, unsuccessfully, to defraud and extract money from the Catholic Church, the Tolkien family and other celebrities.
3 – Carrie is well known to local and national police. He has been contacted by them on numerous occasions with regard to his threatening behaviour.
4 – Carrie has admitted that he lied about his sexual abuse in order to extract money from the church. (The Sun, 14th September 2004). Carrie said: “It was mischievous of me – but when there’s money on offer…”
5 – Carrie did not live within 100 miles of John Tolkien when at the time of the alleged abuse.
6 – Carrie has never won a legal case against another party.
7 – Carrie has never sued anyone who has challenged his self published lies.
8 – Carrie part owns Luna Internet. This is the only reason his website still exists.
9 – Carrie is trying to sell the film rights to his fictitious life story on ebay for £1 million. No one has bid for it.
10 – Carrie is currently a struggling IT worker who lives at [address deleted by moderator] – you can contact him there.

Royd Tolkien

Ananova
Thursday 22nd March 9:02am

Threats made to Tolkien relatives

AN IT technician has been charged with making threats of violence and extortion to relatives of Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien.

Christopher Carrie, 63 from Solihull and author of www.jtolkien.com, will stand trial later this year on four counts of threatening behaviour and one count of extortion. A further allegation of a breach of the peace has been dropped.

Mr Carrie successfully sued the Catholic Church in 2001 for abuse he allegedly suffered whilst within their care. Although the church did not admit liability, Mr Carrie was reportedly paid a five figure sum.

A spokesperson for the Tolkien family declined to comment.

Royd Tolkien on 02/24/07 at 10:31 AM
>>10 Facts about Christopher Carrie

As the only other victim of 'Father' Tolkiens's sexual abuse who has gone public I can confidently say that there is not a shred of truth in the outrageous claims you make about Chris Carrie. Your ridiculous charges should help enlighten other readers as to the Tolkien attitude to the truth.

Sooner or later the story of the numerous victims of Tolkien's predations will reach the light of day. The investigating officers in Birmingham have indeed confirmed that in spite of the veiled terror hinted at by the Church and the Tolkien Legal apparatus victims numbering in "double digits" had come forward and are on record. Of course with the subsequent disgraceful resolution by the Crown Prosecutor Service in the UK it is doubtful whether any others will risk going public. For why should they leave themselves open to the wrath of the Tolkiens and their legal muscle, funded ironically by the profits from - childrens fantasy fiction!

Readers may find some balance against your attempts at disinformation at the Sunday Mercury, the only UK publication, and a small local one at that, that had the courage to go up against the Tolkien $$$m.

'Damages' paid in Tolkien caseJul 20 2003
Martyn Leek, Sunday Mercury

"The Catholic Church has paid substantial damages to a Midland man who claims he was abused by the priest son of Lord of the Rings author J.R.R.Tolkien."

http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/content_objectid=13198462_method=full_siteid=50002_headline=--Damages--paid-in-Tolkien-case-name_page.html

Sex inquiry Tolkien son diesJan 27 2003
By Staff Reporter, Birmingham Post

"The eldest son of The Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien has died at the age of 85.

Father John Tolkien, heir to the multi-million family estate, died after a 50-year career with the Catholic church in the Midlands.

He had been the subject of a police investigation into allegations of sex abuse against young boys during his time as a priest."

The Sunday Times
June 8, 2008
John Harlow
This weekend, JRR Tolkien’s family should know the date they go into legal battle against New Line. The Warner Brothers-owned studio grossed $6 billion from The Lord of the Rings and yet, according to Hollywood’s voodoo accountants, still failed to make any profit to split with the Tolkiens.
To nonlegal eyes, the case favours the Tolkiens. But there is a wild card to be played – Christopher Carrie, who claims he was molested as a boy in a Birmingham church by Tolkien’s oldest son, Father John Tolkien, a scoutmaster, who denied it all before his death in 2003.
This week, Carrie is in LA after meeting John Schulman, top lawyer at New Line-Warner Bros, about turning his religious encounters into a movie. If this were a Hollywood fantasy movie, of course, the evil studio bosses would merely leak the prospect of a film in a newspaper diary, and the clan would slink away like Gollum. But they didn’t, and $160m is at stake. So expect it to get orcish, with some big, scary lawyers on the warpath.