From salon.com:In an interview with the editorial board of the Bucks County Courier Times, embattled Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has equated the war in Iraq with J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings." According to the paper, Santorum said that the United States has avoided terrorist attacks at home over the past five years because the "Eye of Mordor" has been focused on Iraq instead.This is kind of neat how Santorum is able to tie together the War in Iraq and the War for Middle-earth, the two great epic fantasies of the past century.
"As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere
else," Santorum said. "It's being drawn to Iraq and it's not being drawn to the U.S. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the Eye to come back here to the United States."
This also begs some questions:
* Does Santorum think that Gimli Son of Gloin would make a better secretary of defense than Donald Rumsfeld?
* Whom would he predict the Dark Lord Sauron would support as the next Democratic presidential nominee?
* If the good Senator from the great state of Pennsylvania had been a member of the council of elders, would he have voted for or against body armor for dwarves?
* If hobbits in The Shire demanded legalized gay marriage, would the Senator support A Federal Defense of Marriage Act for all of Middle-earth? Would gay marriages in The Shire also be recognized in the Mines of Moria?
* If high-speed and wireless Internet were available in Middle-earth, is there any danger that Gandalf the Grey would be outed as Gandalf the Gay?
Speaking of things that could be neat: If Sen. Santorum loses the election next month, he may have more time for reading. May I suggest that he and Sen. Larry Craig from Idaho get together and form a book club. First on the reading list: Fellowship of the Cock Ring.
Full story from Salon here.
3 comments:
I didn't have time to read the original source but if this account of Santorum's statements is accurate, the comparison doesn't even make sense. Of course this sort of ridiculous stuff has gotten republicans elected over and over. People don't really think hard about what is said as long as it sound clever.
I won't even get into the fact that Santorum probably didn't even read the book and was just quoting a line in a movie.
By the way Gandolph isn't gay. Neither is Merry and Pippen. Everyone seems to overlook Legolas and Gimli as the true gay couple.
Well just to give the benefit of the doubt, I think the comparison with the eye of morder is very interesting. Here is a good question, what place in middle earth can America be compared to? England?
That would be interesting to think about. I'm not downplaying the seriousness of real war, but it gives life a sense of drama to think about such things. Call me a creep if you want. I guess I'm just a Lord of the Rings fan.
The war against morder has been going on for some time actualy and America has had to distract that eye more than once. First it was Hilter, then of it was Hitler again, but the dark Lord has found new subjects to replace them such as the Leaders of Iran and North Korea and off course Bin Laden. The Leader of Iran is the Dark Lords prophet and the other two are his generals. Some day, Some day the eye will fall. Some day. The Day when Gadolf comes and saves all his children from the evil one, the day the King comes to reign in a new heavens and a new earth, the day when Love rules and hate retreats as a shadow, then the eye will fall!! Oo the dead marshes, the ruins of the holocoust now being denied by the Dark Lord's puppets. The ruins of a war years ago in World war two. These dead marshes ever remind of of the comming war with the darkness. May Gandolf come.
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