Re:Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor? (2000)
by hugoc on Thursday March 07, 2013 @03:13PM
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The 'Fellowship Plan' was designed by committee, parties with vested interests, etc., what other outcome could be expected?
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Re:Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor? (2000)
by Zimahl on Thursday March 07, 2013 @04:25PM
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what other outcome could be expected?
Are you implying that all plans by committee are doomed to failure? :)
Re:Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor? (2000)
by cmccabe on Friday March 08, 2013 @05:29AM
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Indeed. Gandalf was more interested in guaranteeing the supply of "pipe-weed," an addictive drug transported and sold throughout Middle Earth for great profit. Gandalf is smoking it constantly.
The whole ring story is just an imperialist narrative constructed to justify preemptive warfare on the "lesser" races of Mordor by the military-industrial complex in Gondor. Gandalf knows the ring is powerless; it's merely symbolic. After he becomes a Grand Wizard-- sorry, White Wizard, Gandalf feels ready to lead the war on the inferior races who speak the "black speech."
Chomsky already explained all this: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/unused-audio-commentary-b...
Re:Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor? (2000)
by arethuza on Friday March 08, 2013 @08:31AM
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"How do you think these wizards build gigantic towers and mighty fortresses? Where do they get the money? Keep in mind that I do not especially regard anyone, Saruman included, as an agent for progressivism. But obviously the pipe-weed operation that exists is the dominant influence in Middle Earth. Itβs not some ludicrous magical ring."
Brilliant.