For fellow Tolkien fans: Edwards as Aragorn, America as Gondor

[IdesOfOctober]

And DC as Minas Tirith.

http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Aragorn_II_Elessar">Aragorn II Elessar: He placed himself in the service of mere Hobbits (Little Folk), and in the process, reclaimed his rightful place as King.

http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Special:Search?search=gondor">Gondor: A once-proud kingdom whose influence has diminished, but which still stands as the bulwark against all the evil of Middle-Earth.

http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Minas_Tirith_in_Gondor">Minas Tirith: The crumbling capital of Gondor. Ruled by a mere http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Denethor_II">Steward.

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When the http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Warning_beacons_of_Gondor">warning beacons are lit, when the http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Red_Arrow">Red Arrow has been sent, when the Great Horn has been sounded, it is the sworn duty of the http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Rohirrim">Riders of Rohan to https://www.johnedwards.com/action/contribute/form">ride swiftly to the aid of the King.

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A Elbereth Gilthoniel
John Edwards - he doth give 'em hell!
o corporate press be ye forewarned!
Ye'll rue the day that you were born!
o "leadership" in both houses
Here - take your walking papuhs
The time has come for us to sing
It is the Return of True King!

:toast:

Ides

[TwilightZone]

In a rather funny coincidence, your thread is on the "Latest Threads" page just above one...

about Viggo Mortenson.

[IdesOfOctober]

13. I like coincidences, and Viggo is dream-y. LOL.

[YOY]

1. Now all we need is some of the Hillary folks to comment that Kucinich must be Frodo...

n/t

[IdesOfOctober]

16. Who is the Shieldmaiden of Corporate America in this analysis?

:think:

Ides

[Marrah_G]

25. Hey Frodo saved the world!

There are worse things to be compares to.

[IdesOfOctober]

28. Pffffffft! Kucinich is Bilbo, at best. He may have found the Ring, but he ain't fated to destroy It.

[Leopolds Ghost]

52. Kucinich IS Frodo. Or maybe Pippin.

[IdesOfOctober]

66. I'd buy him as Pippin.

Looked into the Palantir - which only the true King could wrest to his will - and got all spooked and spooky over it.

Ides

[jgraz]

2. Congratulations! You've won a DORKzy!

:P

[IdesOfOctober]

4. Gosh! I have so many people to thank. I'd like to start - as JRE would - with the Little People.

:toast:

Ides

[tanyev]

10. DORKzy!

:rofl:

[CorpGovActivist]

43. Make It out of Tin Foil!

:rofl:

- Dave

[the other one]

3. And Kucinich is Frodo, and Ron Paul is Gollum

[IdesOfOctober]

5. Now, who can we get to play the role of Shelob?

:think:

Ides

[LondonReign2]

21. Shelob obviously = Condisleezy.

n/t

[IdesOfOctober]

23. That would make a fine PhotoShop!

:rofl:

She has the bucktoothed pincers, even!

[Withywindle]

11. Bush is Gollum.

You don't really think he's going to give up the Ring without a fight, do you? :scared:

[IdesOfOctober]

15. Interesting, hadn't thought of it quite that way.

Maybe that's because I see Gollum as a sympathetic character.

Ides

[Withywindle]

27. If I could see Bush behind the scenes...

...crying, knowing he's in way over his head, rocking back and forth and cradling his whiskey bottle and muttering "my preciousssss," I might feel some sympathy for him too.

[IdesOfOctober]

31. Filthy Hobbitses!

"We hates them - gollum! - we hates them forever!"

[LondonReign2]

24. No, but close

Cheney is Sauron, Bush is merely the Voice of Sauron.

[IdesOfOctober]

26. I thought Dana Perino had that gig?

[LondonReign2]

29. Heh, good point on Perino

However, Perino is weak..Ari mas the master deceiver.

[IdesOfOctober]

30. Orcish inbreeding diluted the gene pool?

[cascadiance]

62. I had Bush as Sauron, made a cafepress.com t-shirt...

with this image:



I was hesitant in adding it as a shop as the underlying ring image I grabbed from the net and "customized it a bit".

BTW, if any of you want to get a good political spoof of the Bush clan in Middle Earth, try viewing Liberty News' "The Nine". It was on Free Speech TV a while back, but you can watch it on the net here:



http://www.libertynewstv.com/RAW%20CLIPS%20and%20STILLS/JUNE2007CLIPS/LntvJun07fulllink.wvx

[IdesOfOctober]

19. No, Kucinich is Bilbo; he found the Ring, but isn't destined to destroy it.

[Leopolds Ghost]

53. Gollum IS....

Mike Huckabee as Lotho Sackville-Baggins:

[KamaAina]

61. Mitt Romney is Saruman

he of the golden voice -- and the empty promises.

[Cant trust em]

6. This is the first time Kucinich can't be called an elf.

[Withywindle]

9. No, but his wife can. n/t

[IdesOfOctober]

42. Bilbo, at best.

[TwilightZone]

7. Well, lately, DU has looked like Mordor.

;)

[IdesOfOctober]

8. You speak with forked Wormtongue!

Begone!

:toast:

Ides

[kestrel91316]

12. I love it!

[IdesOfOctober]

14. Did the 12-sided dice come up in my favor?

:toast:

Ides

[lapfog_1]

17. Ok...

Bill Clinton is Elrond, who was there but failed to ensure that Sauron was completely destroyed.

Al Gore is Isildur because he HAD the ring of power but failed to destroy the evil
(ooooh, shiny!) and thus it was known as Isildur's Bane.

Hillary is (toss up) Galadriel - and you know what happens if she GETS the ring
Hillary is Saruman - erstwhile leader of the white council, deceived and corrupted by the dark tower
Hillary is Denethor - The Last Steward of Gondor, lost in the past, refighting old wars

:evilgrin:

(all in good fun)

[IdesOfOctober]

18. I see you know your Silmarillion!

Hail, and well met, indeed!

:toast:

Ides

[lapfog_1]

20. When the leaves change color and there is a chill in the air

I tend to pull out all of my Tolkien books and reread them. Even after 10 or 12 times, they are still good tales. Great reading while the fire is burning in the fireplace and a cup of hot coco or warm cider in your hands.

[IdesOfOctober]

22. The silverish light in the tree branches that time of year does it to me.

Ides

P.S. Zaphod Beeblebrox.

[lapfog_1]

32. Yes, we could do the same analogy with Hitchhikers

Zaphod is Bill, trillian is Hillary, Ford Prefect is Obama, Arthur Dent is Edwards or maybe Kucinich, Al Gore is Marvin...

And I'm one of two missiles fired at the Heart of Gold, which, due to a very improbable event, was transformed into a blue whale... and who's last thought before impacting the planet was "oh no, not again!"

[IdesOfOctober]

33. 42

[lapfog_1]

34. I'm spending the year dead for tax purposes - n/t

[IdesOfOctober]

36. I bet you still get angry letters and offers from American Express.

[lapfog_1]

37. Nah, they gave up on me years ago. - n/t

[lapfog_1]

35. What is 6 x 9??? - n/t

[IdesOfOctober]

38. As I sit here, naked, with my blue towel protecting me from my laptop, lapfrog,

(and it from me), nursing my coffee and trying to figure out why I'm way out here in this uncharted backwater of the unfashionable end of the spiral arm of DU, I refer you to my prior answer: 42.

Ides

[lapfog_1]

39. Actually, you should be drinking beer, it helps relax the muscles

and considering that the Vogon constructor fleet has just appeared overhead...

You are likely to have a poetry reading in your future.

Besides, the Guide has already updated the entry on your main research topic. It now reads "DU: mostly harmless"

[IdesOfOctober]

40. Here, have some peanuts. You'll thank me for the salt later.

[IdesOfOctober]

41. There's no use whining about it. The donor lists have been on file

at the http://www.fec.gov/">FEC for ages, in accordance with all Galactic Regulations.

Ides

[AntiFascist]

51. The current Hillary is Galadriel when she was tempted by the ring...

:rofl:

[baby_mouse]

44. John Cleese is Saruman. Terry Jones is Galadriel.

Michael Palin is Frodo and the late, Great graham chapman is Gandalf.

[Leopolds Ghost]

58. (high pitched voice) "He's not the Ring bearer, he's a very naughty boy."

Besides which, their version was supposed to star the Beatles, was it not?

(...With Paul as Frodo, George Harrison as Gandalf, and John Lennon as Gollum!)

[AntiFascist]

45. Tim Russert as the Mouth of Sauron...hehehehe n/t

[IdesOfOctober]

48. Ann Coulter or Dana Perino.

[Leopolds Ghost]

59. Karl ROVE as Grima WORMTONGUE

Okay, too easy.

Karl Rove:



Being tossed down the steps at Edoras:



With signing statement:

[backscatter712]

67. I was thinking James Carville as Grima Wormtongue!

After all, he's infiltrating, pretending to be one of us...

[IdesOfOctober]

68. Leo, I think the backscatter trumped ya on this one.

[Buttercup McToots]

46. Bump...up

:)

[IdesOfOctober]

47. My dear Mrs. McToots, how be ye?

:hug:

Ides

[Buttercup McToots]

49. Watchin` the world...

an` dreamin` up mine:loveya:

[IdesOfOctober]

50. Who sits in your Land o' Make Believe Oval Office?

[Leopolds Ghost]

54. BILL KRISTOL is the MOUTH OF SAURON

[Leopolds Ghost]

55. Giuliani IS Sauron, the Lord of The Rings

[Leopolds Ghost]

56. Hillary CLINTON = Saruman??

“….victims? Don’t be melodramatic. (Lime gestures at the people walking far bellow them.) Look down there, would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you 20,000 pounds for every dot that stopped would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare, free of income tax, old man, free of income tax, the only way you can save money nowadays...”

A minute later Lime points out that he is only emulating the morality of governments,

“Nobody talks about human beings anymore. Why should we? They talk about the proletariat and the people, I talk about the suckers and the mugs, it’s the same thing. They have their five year plans and so have I.”

Lime has merely adopted the patriarchal morality of the day, the point of view of the one eyed penis tower manacled by abstract language----people become statistics, the living world becomes a chess board, the ends justify the means.

This “tower” consciousness is exemplified in the Tolkien mythology by The Two Towers, and their associated dictators Sauron and Saruman. Two Towers represent two solar phallic powers emblemized by the Red Eye of Sauron and the White Hand of Saruman. Each has their own army of genetically engineered Orcs which bear one of these two glyphs. Saruman’s orcs may be superior to Sauron’s in that they can better stand to be in the sun. They wonder which master is the more powerful,

Is Saruman the master or the Great Eye? We are the servants of Saruman the Wise, the White Hand: the Hand that gives us man’s flesh to eat.

Towers are emblems of both solar phallic and chtonic phallic power. Neither solar phallic nor chthonic phallic power is good or bad in itself, like all forms of power they may be used for good or evil. The most complete embodiment of solar phallic power in the Tolkien mythology is neither Sauron nor Saruman, but Gandalf the White.

While the Orcs and Ringwratihs can scarcely abide the sun, Gandalf the White can look straight at it, and his hands are filled with light. Sauron’s solar phallic power is not associated with the sun but with the inferior version of it---fire, even his thoughts are described as “fiery.” Fire is the inferior energy, on the earthly plane it is the release of solar energy stored in a plant based fuel—wood, fossil fuel, and far less intense that the nuclear fire of the sun.

When we first hear of Saruman, Gandalf the Grey acknowledges him as his superior, Saruman the White, highest of the Ishtari, the race of wizards:

“Saruman the White is the greatest of my order…Saruman has long studied the arts of the Enemy himself, and thus we have often been able to fore stall him.”

A danger for the one-sided solar phallic personality is that it all too easily becomes obsessed and possessed by what it studies and this has already happened to Saruman. When Gandalf discovers that Saruman is a traitor, it is also learned that he is no longer white. Gandalf narrates,

…’I have come for your aid, Saruman the White.’ “And that title seemed to anger him….”

Saruman makes a proclamation of power,

“For I am Saruman, the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of many Colours!
White!” He sneered “It serves as a beginning. White cloth may be dyed. The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken.”

Gandalf replies,

“In which case it is no longer white, and he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”

http://www.zaporacle.com/textpattern/article/43/castingprecious

Hee hee! I thought you would enjoy that bit of bizzarrity...

[AntiFascist]

60. I recall a Tolkien thread on DU a long time ago...

which argued that the Lord of the Rings was racist. Hmmm.

[IdesOfOctober]

65. Well, there were races.

[IdesOfOctober]

63. Mommy, make him stop!

My head hurts this morning.

:hangover:

That picture ain't the cure I was looking for, either.

Ides

[Leopolds Ghost]

57. And For the First Time in a Major Motion Picture... Bill Richardson IS Samwise

[IdesOfOctober]

64. More like Fatty Bolger, the one who got left behind in The Shire.

A http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredegar_Bolger">bit player, at best.

Ides