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 silence7   ( @silence7@slrpnk.net )  to New York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago

If ‘The Lord of the Rings’ Is a Cautionary Tale, It Was Lost on JD Vance

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If ‘The Lord of the Rings’ Is a Cautionary Tale, It Was Lost on JD Vance

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 silence7   ( @silence7@slrpnk.net )  to New York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago
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Opinion | If ‘The Lord of the Rings’ Is a Cautionary Tale, It Was Lost on JD Vance
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He seems to have missed J.R.R. Tolkien’s main point.
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  •  ShinkanTrain   ( @ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Did I miss a chapter where Wormtongue fucks a couch

    •  DragonTypeWyvern   ( @DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ) 
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      Removed by mod

      •  Gamma   ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) 
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        Said couch was in the Silmarillion too, sturdy and dwarvan built in the time before men

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        Don’t call me out like that, I was like 12 when i read the books and the songs were just so damn long :(

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      Please don’t compare Theoden to Trump by this analogy. He doesn’t deserve that injustice.

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    If “The Lord of the Rings” is a cautionary tale about the desire for power and the use of power, then it is a cautionary tale that was lost on JD Vance.

    The will to power — the desire for power — is as dangerous and corrupting as power itself.

    I’m not certain it was lost on Vance, so much as served as a (corrupted) manual to follow.

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