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“[His voice was] low and melodious, its very sound an enchantment […] it was a delight to hear the voice speaking, all that it said seemed wise and reasonable, and desire woke in them by swift agreement to seem wise themselves … for those whom it conquered the spell endured while they were far away and ever they heard that soft voice whispering and urging them.”
Sure, saruman raped someone and has literally been committing fraud his entire life, but gandalf rides horses.
What’s up with that?
Horses have four legs. I only have two.
Horses are weird.
I don’t remember galdalf aiding a genocide?
I also don’t remember him eating lizard legs on a barbecue stick.
Weird that he committed neither of those sins within his literary journeys, right?
Strange to compare Biden, who is actively aiding in a genocide, to Gandalf, then, isn’t it?
Not at all.
One emissary of a significant power refusing to directly intervene in, though indirectly aid, a specific power within an international war that they are not directly engaging with,
compared to another emissary of a significant power refusing to directly intervene in, though indirectly aid, a specific power within an international war that they are not directly engaging with.
Indirectly aid? INDIRECTLY??
Aiding doesn’t get more fucking direct than sending them the bombs, guidance systems and fuses they use to commit genocide with FFS!
Certainly gandalf takes a much more direct role by actively engaging the nazgul, goblins and balrog, but his role is deliberately indirect to the grand narrative.
Actually, in order to match what Biden is doing, Gandalf would have to be supplying the armies of Saruman and/or Sauron with a significant portion of their swords and siege weapons, all the while pretending to tell Sauron and Saruman to please don’t kill so many people.
On top of the genocide on the border on of the US
Which he agreed, should be the most important issue of the day.
As relevant here as it is there
He did from the perspective of the Orcs
Do you have a more racist metaphor or are you just keeping it at dog whistles?
#DefundGondor
We would be in trouble if the orange stain was channeling Saruman.
We would be in more trouble if Saruman used his voice of command to talk like trump
“I know the best spells, Grumpy Gandalf is very very very jealous of my tower, it’s a wonderful tower, Orthanc, very exclusive and I hold the only key.”
The ring of power will be mine probably next week, but definitely by easter
Would that make Putin Sauron?
He doesn’t have the abilities, but they both wanted more power than they were given and it (hopefully) caused their downfall. They are destroyed by greed.
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Fight the gerontocracy
I was confused why the prefix wasn’t just “gero” and now I’m going down an etymological rabbit hole.
Did you make that word, or did someone else?
It reminds me of Trotsky’s description of a Kleptocracy.
yes
γέρων/gérōn as a noun means “old man” in Ancient Greek, and just “old” as an adjective; I imagine the -to- part probably comes from the form γέροντος/gérontos (singular genitive) or γερόντων/geróntōn (plural genitive) https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/γέρων#Ancient_Greek
Omg why is the president 406 years old wtf guys.
If we are running someone that old, can we please run Dumbledore? Fought against evil his entire adult life, took steps to make education available to all witches and wizards equally regardless of if you were pure blood or muggleborn, taught forgiveness and understood that people could change, for better and for worse. Also taught his students well enough to fend off a full-scale attack from a hoard of adult casters, giants, and a fucking lich without needing his intervention.
(yes, I am talking about Bernie… The only old fuck that is still worthy of holding office)
One press photo of Dumbledore eating one of his beloved ear wax candies and he would be unvoteable.
Sorry the council of elders has chosen our candidates for us, and Dumbledore was sidelined for being just a little too socialist. Press is also no fan.
MAKE ANGMAR GREAT AGAIN
I mean we had literally 9 kings to provide strong leadership. MAGA!
Kinda tired seeing everyone comparing benevolent and pure hearted fictional characters with Biden with this dumb ass format.
Neither Yoda nor Gandalf used their position as a superpower to approve a genocide and play geopolitics.
Moreover, ignoring the fact that Gandalf isn’t human and Yoda is an alien. For their respective “species” they are powerful people who aren’t deathbed old. Biden is a walking talking mummy who can’t form his own sentences, and Trump covers his geriatrics by talking exclusively in simple English.
Rudy “Worm-Tongue” Giuliani
Saruman:
OK but gandalf’s been backing a genocide (of the orcs)
I mean… if the orcs weren’t illegally crossing the border…
Please stop arguing! WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE HOBBITS?!
This turned out to be a pretty controversial comment? Don’t worry guys I’m still voting for Gandalf
Must’ve missed the part where Gandalf started 3 wars
You miss a lot, I bet
Well… depends on whose account of the War of the Ring you read:
Eskov bases his novel on the premise that the Tolkien account is a “history written by the victors”.[2][3] Mordor is home to an “amazing city of alchemists and poets, mechanics and astronomers, philosophers and physicians, the heart of the only civilization in Middle-earth to bet on rational knowledge and bravely pitch its barely adolescent technology against ancient magic”, posing a threat to the war-mongering faction represented by Gandalf (whose attitude is described by Saruman as “crafting the Final Solution to the Mordorian problem”) and the Elves.[2]
NOT CANNON ;)
Of course; it’s a faux medieval fantasy setting where they don’t have gunpowder yet ;)
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