threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to Lord of the memes@midwest.socialEnglish · 26 days agoA Took and a Brandybucksh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareArtyom@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·26 days 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-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·26 days agoThe trees were not a metaphor for the US. Tolkien repeatedly stated he actively avoided using allegory in LOTR.
minus-squareRevan343@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·25 days 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.
One of them also accidentally helped trick Sauron into thinking Aragorn had the ring