The Aryan Kampf in "Lord of the Rings" - Part I

Introduction 

The Lord of the Rings is perhaps one of the greatest epics ever written, certainly the greatest epic from the 20th Century, and will go down in the history as one of the great works of English language literature. Like all great works there are many levels of understanding that apply - kids' minds see an exciting adventure story, while the more educated perception sees profound metaphysical themes and a grand spiritual vision. Due to the large volume of the work, reading it once through is hardly enough, nor is seeing each film just once enough. The Lord of the Rings is a tale to read, reread (in full or in part) and to watch many times on the screen thanks to the superb film adaptations that came out between 2001 and 2003. This massive film project was produced as one film and then released in separate parts with each one roughly equating the respective book. Naturally, due to the differences between the literary and film mediums there are differences, though the extended editions, which came out on DVD fill in many of these gaps. However, the most important thing is that the films are true to Tolkien's themes, thus making most differences go virtually unnoticed by even many of those who read the book, though serious die hard fans have no doubt picked out and analyzed them.

This series of essays will not concern itself with those small matters and instead focus on the broad themes that run through the entire work. All story references will be to the film versions unless otherwise specified.

Overview
Due the nature of the work many people have come to see The Lord of the Rings as an allegory for Medieval Europe and Tolkien even drew from primarily Germanic mythology and legends to formulate much of his tale. Orcs, for one, are present in Germanic myth and the "Men of the South" (who appear in the Battle of Pelennor Fields) can be seen as a version of the Turks or possibly soldiers from Carthage. However, despite these apparent parallels remains the fact that Tolkien himself disapproved of allegorical interpretations of his work and claimed to have preferred "applicability." Since Tolkien did not provide an interpretation of his own, he thus wished for us readers to think about how the struggle he describes in his work applies to our real World. Like all great thinkers, he was ultimately encouraging discovery, instead of just reciting what he himself was taught.

"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its prescence." ~J.R.R. Tolkien, forward to 'Fellowship of the Ring'

The many nations and characters that Tolkien describes in his books are therefore not stand-ins for any real World figure or nation, however this does not mean that their actions cannot parallel the real World. Tolkien so precisely constructed such a vast fictional universe so that he could have as much creative freedom as was possible when it came to communicating ideas and themes. Fiction often draws from real events or writers and artists "get inspired" by real events and are always seeking "inspiration" etc... Tolkien went beyond this... he created his own universe so that when it came time to create the fictional story, his inspiration was drawn from purely metaphysical concepts. He took storytelling to a very grand spectrum, one with a high quality fiction (a pure artistic fiction) on one side and for the other side he dug deep into the throes of reality (way past the typical surface story) and down to the fundamentals that are at its base. This can be seen in the great variety of the characters and their motivations and the complex nature of the conflict at hand. Think of any popular book or movie out in the mass media, if it is "inspired by real events" it usually is just a surface level examination of what really goes on - it boils down to good and bad, right and wrong, and all of the approved simplifications. However, Tolkien's conflict has that critical third side making it actually a three-sided conflict. Many of the story's audience do not notice this since as they watch or read, they simply see a battlefield with two armies, one good one bad, but they fail to notice the motivations that led to this battle as well as what is not on the battlefield; conflict is not limited to physical fighting. Thus, Tolkien's epic is not "inspired by real events" but rather inspired by genuine concepts of the life, the universe, and everything.

The Rings
These are the crux of the story's symbolism and in particular it is the Ring of Power that is the very center of action. The Ring is far from just a MacGuffin or a simple metaphor for the source of power to drive the story forward, it has an applicability to our very real World.

First, we can see that the Ring is made of Gold, which has been the source of greed and power throughout the course of history. In the prologue, each race is given a certain number of rings that were created by Elven smiths. Presumably the number is in proportion to the population of each race in Middle Earth to make the different amounts seem fair. However, in secret, the Dark Lord Sauron forges one ring, the Ring of Power, all for himself and he puts so much energy into it that his life force is dependant on the Ring's survival; without it, he'll be in limbo - with it's destruction he'll perish - however when wearing it, when the illusion is in play, he has a massive source of power that allows him to raise armies and plunder all there is to reap.

In our World, what does this Ring metaphor apply to? Nothing other than Fiat money, which at the time of the tale's writing was backed by gold. In our real World, the money system we have is an illusion of power that works out the same way that Tolkien's rings do. The illusion is the key that keeps the system going as people believe that they have an actual say and can exert actual influence with their power. The reality is, that from the shadows there is the real power that only issues loans on power and freedom, and these loans are what nations are all bound to.

"Three Rings for the Elven kings under the sky,
Seven Rings for Dwarf lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the land of Mordor where the Shadows lie."

Interestingly, there is a work by Richard Wagner called The Ring of Nibelung, in which the protagonist, Alberich, is told that if he forges a ring out of a trove of gold that rests on the bottom of the Rhine he will have all the power in the World. The only catch is that he must renounce the power of love.

"The World as heirloom would I gain!
And if I cannot have Love
Might I not cunningly extort Lust?
The Light will I extinguish for you
The Gold will I tear from the reef
And forge the avenging Ring!
Let the Waves be my witness:
FOREVER HAVE I CURSED LOVE!"

Wagner also had this to say about a particular group of people:
"You ask me about Jewry. I felt a long-repressed hatred for them, and this hatred is as necessary to my nature as gall is to blood. An opportunity arose when their damnable scribbling annoyed me most, and so I broke forth at last. It seems to have made a tremendous impression, and that pleases me for I really wanted only to frighten them in this manner. Because it is certain that not our princes, but the bankers and Philistines are nowadays our masters..." (Correspondence between Wagner and Liszt, Volume I, pg.145, 18th April, 1851)

Oddly, Tolkien said that his Ring and Wagner's Ring are only alike in their round appearance. Yet, in theme they are practically one and the same. In The Return of the King, the opening flashback scene even shows the Ring being found at the bottom of a river or lake. So many parallels cannot be dismissed as "coincidence" though that is a favorite way of the Jew to write off patterns that he finds inconvenient.

If that wasn't enough, Tolkien added some of his own traits to the Ring, most notably that it has an inscription that can only be seen if the Ring is held to fire. Hmm... writing and fire. Does that say something about the nature of this Ring? Well, according to Jew lore on the creation of the universe, the Creator first inscribed the letters of the alphabet with a pen of fire before going on to writing everything into existence. So the Ring is just a symbol for Judaic beliefs. Note that all of Sauron's creations are dependant on this Ring, once it gets annihilated, they all perish along with their Dark Master. It is very true that by manipulating gold one cannot control the World. The Jew, however, seems to stubbornly disagree.

On a side note: a certain ringleader in propagating the Talmudic nature of our Universe and the Life-Force in it, is one Richard Dawkins who wrote a book called The God Delusion. Now, while I agree with Dawkins that many so-called "believers" are quite delusional, it is them and not the idea of God, a Creator, Allah, a Divinity or whatever arbitrary name one wishes to give It. Words are nothing compared to the greatness of the Idea they attempt to explore. That Idea is the energy for the Aryan Metaphysical Drive. The Jew has no such thing and may I recommend to him the book called The Gold Delusion!

Actually, this is the real "Gold Delusion."

The Dark Lord
Sauron is the one who secretly forged the illusion of power known simply as the Ring of Power (the only "power" it really has is the third word in name arbitrarily given to it), and he can be seen, on a simplistic level, as a Devil figure. But just what is this idea known as the Devil, Satan, or whatever arbitrary name one wishes to give it?

The first clue as to what Sauron can apply to in our World can be seen on the original cover of The Two Towers. These covers were hand drawn by Tolkein himself, thus their symbolism can only be his intention. The cover in question is in the middle, with a white tower and moon on the left, a flying entity in the middle, and a black tower and pentagram on the right. Note the three prongs on the black tower. In the film version this tower actually has four prongs, but this is a 2-D sketch, not 3-D graphics where the obvious fourth prong is visible, while in the sketch the middle one hides it. The top of the black tower also contain the Eye of Sauron that allows to the Devil to see the Earth, a periscope of sorts from the infernal domain. This brings up to...

...Baphomet! Note the recurring images here, albeit in the different overall composition: the moon, tower on its head, the star, a corresponding black and white theme and the wings. The black and white theme also demonstrates that the Dark Lord has two Forces at his disposal. One, his own army created from black magic; two, the corrupted ones that he lured and bribed over to his side. Thus, the whole conflict is THREE SIDED - good, bad, and ugly.




If Sauron is applicable to Baphomet, then who exactly is the latter? A very interesting question and one very revealing quote begins to shed light as to the answer. Note that the Jew calls his idol "Yhwh" and the word "tetragrammaton" (literally: "four letter word") may be used as a substitute to mean "Yhwh." If anyone has seen the film Equilibrium (which I reviewed on this blog), they can grasp the nature of what many believe "Yhwh" stands for.

"The image of Yahweh Elohim had been transformed. No longer just the One Supreme God worshipped by the earliest Israelite tribes, he was now a revengeful, partisan deity, with a special people identified by their separateness. Of significance may be the prevalent conception of Yahweh seen in the period of the Maccabees in the second century B.C. Judean Maccabee amulets of around 100 B.C. depict IAWA or IAWAHH (Yahweh) as snake-footed - two monstrous serpents below the torso - and wielding a whip."

Notice any similarities to Baphomet? There are those serpents below the torso. The "people identified by their separateness" is a spot on description of the Jews. Then, of course, there is the fact that the Jews call their deity "Yahweh" or "Yhwh." Little do most people know, that this being is actually the Devil. The full text from where that quote comes from can be found here.

Next, we'll get into specific characters and how they fit into the Three-Sided Conflict that is tearing through Middle Earth.

PART II