For real tho, please send help!

Tolkien preferred to write what he called “fairy stories”, where even though there was death and despair in the plot, there was a resolution and some type of happy ending. It’s why he decided to not write his idea of a sequel to LotR because it hit too close to reality and undid the closure.

If America is Gondor in this analogy, then I suppose the bigger battle with Sauron is climate change. Only there are no hobbits and a fool’s plan in the background to make it all work. Maybe in our reality the Shire was scoured first, wiping out that hope.

If that was arson, that was a really good throw

“Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn!”

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And the West will not answer!