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?
Ahh, yes, Frodo. The one who actually gave into the ring and was only saved by someone literally biting it and the attached finger off.
Also, brave call to say that Frodo exerted an ounce of agency. Frodo was a puppet of the existing power structure and elites who essentially got tricked into going without understanding what was at stake, repeatedly put the ring on despite Gandalf telling him not to, got stabbed and almost died, and then because no one could trust anyone else with it, was the default choice to keep going with a group he had no say in creating.
If you were going to pick someone, you should at least have gone with Samwise.
Talk about someone who hasn’t read the books.
Frodo was saved by the community he built along the way. That’s why we build community in the first place. Media literacy isn’t that hard if you put your mind to it!
He was saved by Gollum biting his fucking finger off, but sure. Keep simping for your rich, nepo-baby, landowning bourgeois. Find it hilarious seeing someone from hexbear backing the landlord in the story.
In one of Tolkien’s letters, he specifically says that if Gollum had been redeemed as much as he could, he would have taken the ring and jumped into Mt. Doom voluntarily.
Bourgeois? That sounds like communist talk. Are you some kind of tankie?
No, but would’ve loved when Frodo got rid of Sam, if Sam has said “See the violence inherent in the system! Help, I’m being repressed!” 😄
And yet I don’t find it surprising that the ee is backing genocidal maniacs, that seems pretty par for the course
Liberals can only imagine last minute ass-pulls saving the day and devalue anyone and anything else striving to avert calamity. Otherwise, it’s all Adults In The Room that Make The Hard Decisions and Get Shit Done by reinforcing the status quo.
And judging by how you’re talking here, you identify as one such Adult In The Room that Makes The Hard Decisions and Gets Shit Done by reinforcing the status quo.
Sure you do.
That’s such a tiresome and arrogant Reddit-standard opener for your reply that I’m doubting that “withsoul” part of your name.