I’m a well-informed Hobbit—a Boffin from Overhill, thank you very much—who is in a kerfuffle about whom to throw my Hobbit-sized support behind. Fo...

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?

    • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      38·
      2 months ago

      I’d vote for Frodo, since he’s ignoring all of the ridiculous political bullshit and actually trying to do a revolutionary act by building a fellowship and working together with his friends to destroy the source of the evil rather than fighting over who is the best one to control the evil.

      I swear it’s like you people haven’t even read the books!

      • geekwithsoul@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        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.

    • fox [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      36·
      2 months ago

      Didn’t Galadriel straight up say that if she were given the power of the Ring she’d turn into a tyrant? Like, if the choices are Sauron (tyrant, given the power) and Galadriel (tyrant, given the power) it seems most correct to pick Frodo (trying to unmake the source of corruptive and destroying power).

      Like, if anyone wielding the Ring for any purpose will be subordinate to its will no matter their intentions, and ultimately will subjugate all others, then the dichotomy is not which wielder, but whether the Ring should exist or not.

      • geekwithsoul@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        10·
        2 months ago

        For the purposes of the satire, they left the ring out of it. Otherwise it’s just a Monty Python sketch and would be about “the violence inherent in the system” 😉

        And as I commented to someone else who picked Frodo - he too gave in to the ring in the end and was only saved by someone biting off his finger that had the ring on it. He’s also an upper middle class nepo-baby who’s a landlord. If you’re going to pick someone else, you have to go with proletarian Samwise.

        • TC_209 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          31·
          2 months ago

          For the purpose of the satire, they left out the whole point of the books, which is something you’d know if your knowledge of LotR wasn’t based entirely on cultural osmosis.

          • geekwithsoul@lemm.eeOPEnglish
            5·
            2 months ago

            You don’t know what satire is, do you? And man, with everything else thrown my way because of this post, insulting my nerd cred is a low blow even for someone from hexbear. I thought you all at least had standards!