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

Events and Places
Volume I: The Fellowship of the Ring

Prologue
In the opening sequence we see the history of the Rings of Power and how they were formed by Noble beings, the Elves, with the intention of gaining insight about their World and the other beings in it. It was an act benevolent in conception and intended to be that way in practice. However, the Dark Lord gained knowledge of this and quickly found a way to cheat the new order for his benefit with his own Ring. His campaign of war and pillage tears apart many groups from many different races, but it was not the military aggression from Mordor that led to the decline, that was just the final step of exploitation and reaping of resources. From what we know about the Rings, we can assume that there was some moral corruption that penetrated the leadership hierarchy of each nation and thus made them easy to conquer - they were not united. These factors must also include economic turmoil as well and the Gold symbolism of the Ring is more than enough to link it to a monetary interpretation, among others. The main idea, however, is that due to Sauron's secret Ring, all the others were indebted to him and thus slowly lost their power, he slyly sucked enough of it up to unleash an easy conquest. The Jewish controlled usury system on our very real World works just the same, a central bank works like the One Ring that has all of its pawns in debt slavery and this routinely leads to wars, revolts, depressions and general turmoil for honest working people.

Naturally, we've had many opportunities to rid our World of this money menace, but as Isildur's Choice shows, this kind of exploitative power is not only corrupting (that's a later step), it first appears to us as appealing and desirable and hence has not yet been destroyed. The Noble and wise Elrond sees that dangerous folly of Isildur's Choice and watches in hopelessness as the man with the chance to put an end to the World's plague decides to try and rein it in for his own use. This quickly results in Isildur's final bane and the Ring is lost amidst chaos, passing on into legend with the common folk of Middle Earth being hardly aware of its significance, but the wise like Elrond know all too well what it is and what it means.

The Ring, as it leaves Isildur to be killed by ambushers, is said to betray him in doing. It then passes to myth during its long period of being lost. This is directly akin to the real nature of the Jew, who, due to fictional lore in nearly every field of science and knowledge, has been lost. But this real Judaic face has also been replaced with something - a face of good, a face of a victim. As we will soon find out, the greatest trick evil ever pulled was convincing the World that it didn't exist.

The Discovery is Made and the Quest Begins
The Ring was picked up by a small being who eventually became the Gollum, its protector, but it too betrayed even him. However, it then accidentally fell into the possession of a Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who took it back home to the Shire. It gave him long life and it is on his 111th birthday that his old and wise friend, Gandalf the Wizard, begins to suspect something is not right. To his surprise, it ends up being the Ring that he's heard about from the history texts, the one Isildur failed to destroy.

Interestingly, a quality of the Ring is that it makes the one wearing it invisible in the regular spectrum of light, but as find out, this condition is not absolute invisibility... the wearer is simply visible in another spectrum. This makes the Ring in Tolkien's story not only similar to Wagner's aforementioned ring, but also to a ring conceived by Plato called the Ring of Gyges, which to grants invisibility and tempts the wearer to do evil. Plato's Ring can only be destroyed in the Crack of Doom, which parallel's Tolkien's Mount Doom and both locations are even described as volcanic, in fact, Mount Doom is just a straight up volcano. The "other spectrum" in which the Ring Wearer is visible is of course a symbol for the new realm of possibilities that they find themselves in. Note that the Wearer is not really alone, as other players are already in this field and they don't like uninvited guests!

This other spectrum is, of course, one Sauron and his Nazgul goys have under constant observation, thus Bilbo's little disappearing trick at his birthday party inevitably draws evil closer to him and the Ring. Luckily, Gandalf has detected what is going on at this point and convinces his old friend to give up the Ring. Hobbits are shown to be mostly apathetic as to what goes on in the World beyond their Shire, but Frodo rises to the task when it comes to the duty of getting the Ring to a safe location, one where it can remain hidden. The first idea is to keep it in the Shire, somewhere secret, but it proves too late for that. So Frodo sets out with his trusted friend Sam, but they soon take along two other hobbits, Merry and Pippin, on their journey. It is a journey that will forever change them.

When Frodo tries to hide from the Nazgul as he encounters them on Weathertop, he sees the futility in trying to win at a game that is rigged by the Dark Lord. He may be invisible to his friends, but the Nazgul still see him, they are part of the Dark Lord's chessboard, thus by putting on the Ring he is just making a predictable move and is promptly wounded mortally, but Aragorn (whom the Hobbits met the previous night) manages to fend of the Nazgul and the group presses on to Rivendell to get medicine for Frodo.

Due to this being a big studio production from Hollywood, the visuals may be suspect and not totally faithful to the themes that Tolkien had originally written out, but nonetheless there was one visual detail that I found very interesting. When Gandalf first tries to pick up the Ring, the framing of the shot has a hexagram shaped light fixture overhead and the shot composition looks like a though-bubble. Thus, Gandalf seems to be thinking about a six-pointed object when looking at the gold Ring of Power... and when he tries to pick it up... the Eye of Sauron, a.k.a. the Eye of Zion as seen on the back of a Dollar Bill (a debt inducing tool), flashes and he then fully realizes the frightening truth.

Eye of Sauron & Eye of Zion

Isengard
The Order to which Gandalf belongs is based in a large tower, Orthanc, in the middle of Isengard. His superior is Saruman the White, who unfortunately makes the same choice as Boromir will later, only Saruman does not go on to redeem himself. He fully commits to an alliance with the Dark Lord and clearly states that this is "the only choice" that the Wizards have. In other words, he is worried about saving his own skin and gaining some power while he's at it. He becomes a goy. He also starts to destroy the forest around Isengard and industrializing the land to make a large quarry or forge of some sort from which he makes an army of golems/orcs. A particularly powerful breed of orc that he starts to make, the Urak-Hai, is said to have some traces of Elf in its life-force. This will prove to be a danger for our heroes as these more powerful golems can stand the light of the Sun and move about with full strength during the day.

Rivendell and the Council of Elrond
Frodo heals after being brought here by Lady Arwen and her quick horse riding. Rivendell is one of the main cities of the Elven nation in Middle Earth and home to Elrond who has called a Council of Dwarves, Men and his fellow Elves to decide what is to be done with the One Ring.

Note that when describing the situation of men on Middle Earth he says that "men are scattered, divided, leaderless" and doesn't express much hope about their abilities. This can be directly applied to real World strife that Gentiles face and their ineffectuality at dealing with the problems and dangers that plague them.

Boromir is also introduced in this scene and his weakness, which is the same one that spelled doom for Isildur, becomes apparent at the Council meeting. He suggests that the Ring is actually a gift and can be used against the enemy. However, we have already seen the futility of such matters, not just with Isildur, but we have seen it first hand with Frodo on Weathertop. An argument ensues at the meeting when the question is raised as who will be tasked with destroying the Ring as that is quickly seen as the only logical option. Note the quick shot of the characters reflected in the Ring as they argue... it is fueling their anger as it has always done to divide and conquer and thus outlast all of its enemies. Frodo, who has seen first hand the power of the Ring, rises now to the new and much grander task of taking the Ring to Mordor and destroying it. He does this out of a sense of duty and this one voicing of reason almost immediately gets everyone else to see what they must do: "Unite or Fall" as Elrond said earlier, but it is only now that they all fully understand it.

Interesting is that, while the Ring can easily divide to conquer its victims, it doesn't take much to get people rallied against it - even Frodo, a small Hobbit, who doesn't at all initially appear to be a militarist leader, manages to do this due to his new found will. He basically becomes an "Ubermensch" in that moment, an idea that Nietzsche described and one that Hitler later applied in German society. Note that it is not a biological term, but a sociological one and a member of any race or nation can ascend to it, just like anyone can become an Aryan, the traits are not ethnic specific.

The Fellowship of the Ring is what is needed to smite evil, a multi-ethic cooperation looking past arbitrary borders and differences in order to realize common purpose.

Multi-Ethnic Cooperation begins its Key Mission

Moria
After some traveling the Fellowship enters the Dwarven Mines of Moria, which is a whole underground city and one of the main locations of the Dwarf Folk. Unfortunately, the city mine is in complete ruin and its inhabitants have been all killed. Legolas determines the culprits to be Goblins, but there is something far more sinister lurking here and too bad for our heroes that it eventually senses their presence.

The overall symbolism of Moria is a vision of a dark future, as what happened here is a dangerous possibility across all of Middle Earth. It was the greed from the Rings of Power (once they were tainted by Sauron) that led to the Dwarves' destruction here. They mined so deep that they awoke an ancient beast called the Balrog and, as we have seen, this monster is really just a projection of Sauron who wants to wreak havoc across all of Middle Earth as the Balrog did in Moria. Sauron is routinely shown with fire, especially his Eye. Balrog is also clearly a devil-like creature who, just like Sauron, was recently roused from slumber and immediately sprung into action to repeat and expand upon his former deeds of civilization and culture destruction. Note that the Balrog wields a whip, likening it to images of Yahweh as depicted on the Judean Maccabee amulets.

Standing up to the Devil

This sequence ends with the key image of the Balrog falling to an abyss, the theme of falling will repeat several times at key events of the whole story. The defeat of the Balrog also came at a heavy price, though - Gandalf fell down with it.

Lorien
The Fellowship next comes to Lorien, the capital of the Elf Folk. Here Frodo sees, in the mirror of Galadriel, essentially a repeat of what he saw in Moria: a dark possible future, including a vision of a destroyed and enslaved Shire. This last bit will come into play at the very end of the third volume.

By the Falls of Rauros
After saying Farwell to Lorien, the Fellowship heads down the Great River and stops at the Falls of Rauros where the last key events of this volume take place. Boromir finally succumbs to the Power of the Ring, but with his breaths actually redeems himself by stopping himself from killing Frodo and letting him escape, he then fights to save Merry and Pippin from the Uruk-Hai, but is mortally wounded. Aragorn gives Boromir a warrior's burial with his armor, shield and sword. Though, not all players can end up like Boromir for the Kampf to succeed, we must realize before inevitable death what needs to be done and how. Aragorn realizes this and refuses the Ring, as does Gandalf in the beginning in the Shire, and as Galadriel does in Lorien.

Frodo and Sam go it alone to Mordor and Frodo's increasing independence has him also making the spiritual journey to the Arhat. Note that Sam will be by Frodo's side like a loyal Kamerad to the very end, until the final key task of the journey is done by Frodo.

Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas go after the remaining Uruk-Hai who have kidnapped Merry and Pippin. Oddly, this chapter, in the novel as well as in the DVD chapter list, is called "The Breaking of the Fellowship" but this can be misleading. The members of the Fellowship may be in different locations with some being held against their will, but the Fellowship is still in operation, they are continuing with their ultimate duty, though individual members may have different tasks to carry out. Even the late Boromir is still in effect a part of it, since the bond of the Fellowship was and still is:

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Unity Through Nobility
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PART IV