threelonmusketeers to Lord of the [email protected]English • 5 months agoA Took and a Brandybucksh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up1644arrow-down111
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-8•5 months agoAnd your primary contribution to thr success of the plan was tricking a bunch of trees that were a metaphor for the USA to drop fat man on a REALLY TALL building.
minus-square@TheGrandNaguslinkEnglish28•edit-25 months agoThe trees were not a metaphor for the US. Tolkien repeatedly stated he actively avoided using allegory in LOTR. Besides, if anything it was the common “nature getting revenge for what we’ve done to it” trope.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months agoOne of them also accidentally helped trick Sauron into thinking Aragorn had the ring
And your primary contribution to thr success of the plan was tricking a bunch of trees that were a metaphor for the USA to drop fat man on a REALLY TALL building.
The trees were not a metaphor for the US. Tolkien repeatedly stated he actively avoided using allegory in LOTR.
Besides, if anything it was the common “nature getting revenge for what we’ve done to it” trope.
One of them also accidentally helped trick Sauron into thinking Aragorn had the ring