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."
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!"
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.
II - Characters and Races
There is a great deal of character diversity in The Lord of the Rings with not only many protagonists, but also many races that live in Tolkien's Middle Earth. In general, each group has a particular region that it calls home and many characteristics that are unique to it. Some groups can be seen as outright good, others as bad, however there are also groups that cannot be generalized in this way and it is their key players that must be looked at.
Hobbits: The first group of Middle Earth inhabitants that we meet at length. The Hobbits are a cheerful bunch of villagers who like beer and festivities to excite their humble little life in the Shire. They are a well meaning humanist crowd. However, we soon learn that one of the Hobbits, Bilbo Baggins, actually has the long, lost Ring of Power and it has somewhat degraded him; he is now quite the recluse when compared to his festive kin and it is not an easy task to give up the Ring, he can clearly be seen to have become addicted to its presence. However, since Hobbits are good at heart, he does give it away on Gandalf the Wizard's wise orders and it is entrusted to his younger cousin, Frodo. Bilbo's actions, after having possessed the Ring for so long, seem to suggest that Hobbits are not mere Gentiles. Bilbo says of his kin: “Where our hearts truly lie is in peace and quiet and good-tilled earth." This strongly reflects the Aryan Farmer archetype.
Frodo is the Hobbit who rises to Arhat through his quest; his friends who accompany him certainly become Aryans through their enlightenment and intense experience. Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin learn about the vast expanse of the World in which they live, about the forces that have been driving it, and they take part in the Aryan Kampf to bring about a New Order in a New Age.
Gollum/Smeagol: He is a specific character and I mention him here, since Gollum is actually a degenerated Hobbit. He still goes by his old name Smeagol, including when talking about himself in the third person, but Gandalf refers to him as Gollum and so does Tolkien's text. This two-name theme reflects the character's dual nature of good and bad, which has now mixed into a degraded and corrupt unit. This character also parallels the Golem from Jewish lore, which was supposed to be a being created from inanimate materials, most often stone or clay, and then "activated" and meant to protect a Rabbi or a group of Jews from harm.
Gollum, when shown in the story, is very much associated with stone. There is the color of his skin, that fact that he is first scene in the Moria mine jumping from one stone to another, and in a brief scene of Gandalf explaining that Gollum was tortured by Orcs before being released it could certainly pass for him being "made" in a lab of some sort. Lastly, in The Two Towers, he is first seen crawling down a stone cliff and he is supposed to recover the Ring and thus protect the life-force of the Dark Lord Sauron. Also, Gollum doesn't seem to feel pain, which suggests his body is being artificially kept alive. He can be seen eating a fish at one point, but it also looks like he is just killing and munching it for his own amusement.
This many parallels in theme and imagery could not have been a coincidence. Thus the character's dual nature has two meanings. First, there is Smeagol, who is the ultimate example of Gentile corruption, driven to and dominated by love for gold, even to the point of neglecting his own body's well-being, let alone anyone else's. In a way, he is the polar opposite of the Hobbit Frodo. Second, there is Gollum, a soulless artificial goy built by Jews to serve Jews, but mainly to protect their artificially generated wealth and swindle.
Wizards: The race of wizards in the storyline is also presented with an opposing duality theme. First is the fact that there are two wizards, Gandalf the Grey and Saruman the White. Gandalf, is not led astray from Nobility, while Saruman succumbs to corruption. Thus each wizard takes on a second new form as the story progresses. The change is more metaphorical with Saruman who begins to serve Sauron (note that Saruman's staff resembles the Dark Tower), he goes through a change of character. With Gandalf, the change is more literal as he gets a change of body after risking himself to save others from the Balrog in Moria. The new Gandalf that emerges is now much more able bodied as evidenced in his fighting skills and capable of wielding more potent magic as he breaks Saruman's staff.
Gandalf, in a way, ascends to a position analogous to that of Arhat, while Saruman falls from his former post. In the film version this fall is quite literal as he plunges to his death from the top of Isengard. In the book, however, he reappears at the end in the Shire, which he transformed into a crude industrial complex - since he can no longer wield power by magic and divine knowledge, he makes machines to do it for him. In the end, however, he perishes the same with his slimy assistant who is very appropriately named Grima Wormtongue.
Elves: Elves are the purest race present in Middle Earth. They possess knowledge and wisdom like no other and it was Elven smiths who initially forged the Rings in with good intention of gaining knowledge about Middle Earth. The only Rings that were not tainted by Sauron were the ones belonging to the Elves, thus for all intents and purposes it is the Elves who know most about the Rings: how they work, how they should work, and are thus able to detect a corruption in the system. It is, the Elf Elrond who instructs the characters on how to destroy the Ring; the Elf Galadriel gives each member of the Fellowship a useful gift; the Elf Legolas is himself part of the Fellowship and his keen senses and archery skills help out greatly on many occasions. The Elves' graceful nature is reflected in how Legolas fights; it is rarely hand to hand, but rather with knowledge and foresight as seen in those impeccably launched arrows that never seem to miss their mark.
Men: The race of Men is most morally ambiguous. They may possess great knowledge and great ability, but are easily corrupted by prospects of power. This can be seen as early as the intro sequence to The Fellowship of the Ring where Isildur has the ability to destroy Sauron's power forever, but chooses to keep it for himself.
Elrond: Destroy it!
Isildur: ...No...
Needless to say, any attempt to rein in such a wild and savage force will end with... well, wildness and savagery; Isildur is soon ambushed by some men who also want the Ring and in the violence it is lost until Smeagol finds it at least a millennium later. Isildur's lust for power led to his own destruction and effectively kept Sauron’s life-force intact, thus the fate of Middle Earth is still potentially up for grabs by evil. There are men who are not so easily wooed by power, though.
Aragorn is noble at heart and has had Elven training thus is a very capable warrior as well as a wise leader. He is the heir of Isildur and ends up wielding his forefather’s broken sword (which Elrond had reforged) and playing a key role in the Kampf all the way to the very end at final battle at the Black Gate of Mordor. This great task which he approaches as a duty, effectively makes him an Arhat by the end of The Return of the King.
Theoden and the Men of Rohan are what we could call typical Gentiles. They are motivated to duty by imperative, not fully out of their own will, but they do mean good and dutifully fight the forces of evil, though at great cost - even King Theoden ends up falling in battle.
Denethor is the steward of Gondor, sitting in for the absent king, and this close position to power has corrupted his heart. He is unable to make clear and rational decisions and takes his anger out on his son, Faramir. The conflict between the men of Rohan and the men of Gondor is very illustrative of real world conflicts between groups of people - their disagreement is effectively a grudge, they refer to some past date and event that justifies not having to help the other, or justifies demanding help, but the point is that division is clearly leading them closer to doom.
Faramir and Boromir are brothers and sons to Denethor. Boromir ends up joining the Fellowship right after the Council of Elrond, while Faramir is introduced in The Two Towers as he happens to meet Frodo, Sam and Smeagol as they move around the mountain walls of Mordor. These two men show both major paths that Men (as a whole) take: both are within reach of great power, but as Boromir slowly begins to fall for it eventually winding up at his doom, Faramir begins to gradually understand why he must put his duty first and do his part in ensuring the destruction of the Ring. Every real world Gentile has these two options. The only question is will they take “Boromir’s Choice” or “Faramir’s Choice?” Note that Faramir’s Choice is harder and ends up requiring a great deal more persistence.
The other groups of men are the Men of the South and the Corsairs. Both are identified to be in Sauron’s service, thus have made Boromir’s Choice and just like for Boromir, it ends up spelling out their end.
There is also a group of ghosts, the Army of the Dead, men from a group of soldiers shamed for breaking their oaths of service. They are trapped in the confines of a mountain and the only thing that will ever see them redeemed is if a King of Gondor holds their oath fulfilled, which of course will require the completion of a great task to even consider as an option. These men are a good representation of the dangers of apathy and selfishness. When they abandoned their master, Isildur, in order to save themselves, they were, in effect, ready to accept slavery under Sauron. Now, after being cursed for millennia, they finally stand up to their duty. They prove that their honor is loyalty. Thus, Aragorn, rightful heir to the throne of Gondor, holds their oaths fulfilled and they are released from their curse and shame. The Army of the Dead’s passing is similar to Boromir’s, who in his last minutes repents and realizes that it was the Ring that seduced him, so he then fights to save Merry and Pippin from an ambush. He is struck down, but dies and passes on with honor. The Army of the Dead remained trapped in stone and only passing into Arya after their duty was done. Same end result as Boromir, just drawn out over thousands of years!
Dwarves: Great miners and craftsmen. They are somewhat similar to Hobbits, short and stocky, though much stronger and with great endurance. They are also adept at fighting as Gimli, a member of the Fellowship, demonstrates. Dwarves are less susceptible to corruption than men, as the fate of the seven who received the Ring in the prologue verse was somewhat different. Instead of becoming goys to the Dark Lord, the Rings worked up their greed for Gold, which they mined with increasing feverishness. It was Durin III who received the Ring, but it was his Son who inherited it and awoke the Balrog, a hibernating beast, in Moria, which promptly went on to be called “Durin’s Bane.”
Orcs: They are the primary soldiers in Sauron’s service. They have virtually no characterization or identifiable characters as they have very little to identify with in the first place. They are just brawlers and fighters who thirst for violence and plunder. They also seem to be cannibalistic and unable to feel pain or concern for anything; they are purely impulse and aggression driven beasts. The Uruk-Hai are an elite breed of Orcs that are taller and stronger. All Orcs, however, are made from Earthly materials, literally created out of the ground, which of course mirrors the golem concept and that is what Orcs are: a brigade of armed golems serving the Dark Lord.
The Dark Lord
Nazgul, the Ring-Wraiths: These demons are the top servants of the Dark Lord and the formerly great kings of men that received the nine Rings of Power (as mentioned in the prologue verse). Now they are totally corrupted and blindly subservient to Sauron. Their goal is the Ring, which they seek to bring it back to their master in order to give him his full power back. In story dynamics, these nine are a sort of Dark Fellowship or anti-Fellowship. A group committed to evil at all expense, while the Fellowship led by Gandalf is fully committed to good.
Other Things Fair and Foul
There are a great many elements to this grand tale, but I believe that the key ones have been addressed. However, here is a list of some minor characters that often have brief or parallel storylines to the main one.
Arwen: Elven Maiden and Daughter of Elrond. She and Aragorn are in love and she knows that despite her Elven immortality, Aragon will die as all men do. This creates a dilemma for her, whether to leave Middle Earth with the Elves or stay with a doomed love. Her storyline is interesting, in that it presents a variant on the slavery/preservation theme. By going with the Elves and leaving Aragorn, she would have eternal life, but no love... however, she chooses love, and inevitable death, over this choice of self-preservation.
Ents: Tree-beings from Fanghorn Forest that help bring down Isengard and Saruman who destroyed much of the forest to make way for his war machine.
Balrog: Huge beasts, one of which makes an appearance in the mines of Moria in The Fellowship of the Ring, the one known as “Durin’s Bane.” It would be just a passing danger, however, it bears relevance to the overall theme of the tale. First off, the Balrog can be seen as a projection of Sauron who we never see as he cannot walk the surface without his Ring of Power - the fire imagery is the best visual connection of these two. Note, the fire wasn’t present in the book as it is seen in the movie. In the book the Balrog has internal fire and is shrouded in dark and hence able to hide underground and unnoticed. The name “Durin’s Bane” was given since it can inidicate an event, a place, and not necessarily a creature as it was not known what killed the Dwarf-lord Durin until much later when the beast was actually seen.
Tolkien was also a master philologist and his love of words can be seen in the fact that good characters have elegant and well versed speech, while evil characters have very primitive language laced with curses and growls. It is also why he chose the name “Gollum” for the appropriately themed character. However, “Balrog” is another example of this naming theme. “Ba’al” was the first name the Jews used for their deified idol. Not surprisingly, in Christian lore (Tolkien was a Traditionalist Catholic and read from a Latin Bible even), “Baal” is a demon, an evil, often written with the full name “Baal Zebub” or “the Lord of the Flies.” “Beelzebub” is the Anglicized version of the word. Finally, “rog” is Hindi for “malady.” Thus, the “Balrog” is literally a “Lord of Sickness” - but a sickness that afflicts cultures, as can be seen in the destruction of the Moria Mine and Dwarf-Folk there. With this brief, but striking, image, JRR Tolkien united several languages and cultures to show the true demon visage of the Jew. This is exactly what the “Fellowship of the Ring” is, a multi-ethnic alliance rallying against their common affliction.
III - Events and Places
Volume I: The Fellowship of the Ring
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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Unity Through Nobility
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IV - Events and Places
Volume II: The Two Towers
The story picks up right where the previous installment left off. The Fellowship had been separated by the Falls of Rauros and now three parties push on with the Grand Task. I have said that the Fellowship wasn't really "broken" (as the chapter title seems to suggest), but that it is still intact and it is just different duties that sent the members in different directions. This idea is confirmed by the Extended Edition DVD, which includes a map of the Fellowship's trek on the box art. The map on the first film's DVD box shows the Fellowship's path from the Shire and to the Falls of Rauros, thus the Fellowship was formed much earlier than it was formalized by Elrond, simply new members joined the mission. In the box art to The Two Towers, there is also a map, but now with three paths - that of Frodo and Sam; that of Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli; and that of Merry and Pippin, who go through a similar change that their two Shire kin have already begun to experience.
Frodo and Sam's Journey
The first of three major plot lines in the film. Frodo and Sam are traveling through a chain of mountains and the journey is starting to take a heavy toll on Frodo. First, he has a nightmare about Gandalf's fall from the Bridge of Kazad-Dum in Moria. Second, the weight of the Ring is making him ever weary and seems to be altering his body. Sam notices that Frodo is eating and sleeping very little, thus it must be the Ring that is somehow driving him and this condition of being artificially alive are the first steps that led to Smeagol's degradation into the Gollum.
Gollum is also introduced as a character here - previously he had just been an ominous background stalker as seen in The Fellowship of the Ring. Frodo connects with Gollum in a way and he seems to at least partly understand Gollum's condition, since he himself is going through what Gollum went through years and years ago. Sam, on the other hand, is very wary of Gollum and suspects him to be pulling a two-faced trick so that he can get his hands on the Ring, which he repeatedly calls "the Precious." Gollum may be just a goy of Sauron, though he is a clever goy and promptly begins to use the Dark Lord's favorite tactic of divide and conquer. Gollum knows that he cannot overpower both Hobbits at the same time, especially since Sam is not falling for his charade, so he starts to sow discord between the two Hobbits. This is subtle at first, such as calling Frodo "Master" and belittling Sam as "the fat Hobbit," which, in effect, places them on opposite ends of a forced dichotomy - one is held in esteem, the other in disgust. Through constant repetition, this mindset of Gollum's begins to settle into the minds of Frodo and Sam and the seeds of conflict start to sprout. The first argument that the two of them have is after being with the Gollum for a few days, yet they were best of friends before. Thus, this new found callousness they have towards each other (though mainly Frodo towards Sam) must have been subversively introduced - first by the Ring and then further stirred by Gollum, which is basically just the same process as both serve the Dark Lord.
Gollum's inner conflict is also a mirror of Frodo and Sam's brewing conflict. The theme of duality seems to be very pervasive in Lord of the Rings, and due to the great length and scope of the work, Tolkien was able to demonstrate not just a great many possibilities, but their opposites as well -- Boromir and Faramir; Saruman and Gandalf; Denethor (whom we still have to meet) and Theoden; Gollum/Smeagol and Frodo & Sam. In all instances, one side is seduced by evil, while the other rises up to the call of duty, note that this does not always mean survival.
The destructive efficiency of evil hopes that by making one side fall, the other side will be pulled down trying to save it. This image of a forced dichotomy that is engineered to destroy is the main theme of this chapter and the first great task of the Fellowship is to counter it.
Dichotomy of the Two Towers
There are two literal towers in the film, Orthanc in Isengard and Barad-Dur in Mordor. These titular towers represent the Grand False Dichotomy that the Dark Lord is using to divide the nations of Middle Earth, but mainly the two nations of men - Rohan and Gondor. This image can be directly applied to the real World Cold War that was in full swing when Lord of the Rings was first published with the two towers being Washington DC and Moscow, or Capitalism and Communism, or NATO and the Warsaw Pact, etc... However, this idea of subversive divide to pave the way for easier conquest and control is nothing new and a well versed scholar like JRR Tolkien was certainly well aware of this fact. To this day we have people arguing over left and right in countless forms be they social, political or even in the fields of science. The point is that it very effectively negates the objectivity and focus that unity requires and thus Gentiles remain repressed. It is a grand irony that this unfortunate condition is largely due to their own doing, but that is what makes it so hard to combat - it requires the swallowing of one's own pride (something not easily done) and realizing that you've been fooled by an illusion.
This is by an large what the puppet master Sauron is counting on, that capable Men are unable to swallow their pride and sacrifice for their neighbor with whom they have a grudge or in whom they see some arbitrary difference, be it political, social, cultural, or national - or even simply geographical. Conquest of spirit precedes conquest by sword.
Gandalf's Journey
A longer version of Gandalf's great fall from the broken bridge of Kazad-Dum is the opening sequence of the film. Despite already being very deep underground, Gandalf and the Balrog seem to fall into a pitch black abyss and in this sequence we see that it is actually quite deep, they fall and even fight while still falling and falling...
This could be explained by the fact that they actually weren't that deep underground, but near the foot of mountain as the surrounding landscape seems to show. However, a literal and physical explanation will come to another dead end: when Gandalf tells Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli of his fall, he says that he eventually defeated the Balrog while up on what can only be the peak of a great mountain. How did he fall so far and wind up on an alpine summit? The explanation, therefore, must be metaphysical and/or spiritual. This would also explain why Gandalf is still alive after such a strenuous feat as well as why he seems to be endowed with not just new powers, but effectively a new life - Gandalf has ascended to Arhat. The fall down to the depths of Middle Earth and the final fight up on a freezing peak is him triumphing over all levels of his natural condition - both in spirit and in body. Each member of the Fellowship is on the same kind of metaphysical journey in conjunction with their mission.
Edoras
Edoras is the main city of Rohan, which is one of two nations of Men in Middle Earth. An alliance between these nations is key for Sauron to be defeated. The Dark Lord knows this all too well and has used his puppet Saruman to forge an army of elite orcs in order to destroy Rohan. Saruman is also up to tricks of his own and has divided the leadership of Rohan and effectively made it powerless and subversively guided by him. King Theoden of Rohan is under Saruman's spell and the King's advisor Grima Wormtongue has been bought out by Saruman and thus maliciously advises the King. When Eomer, the King's own nephew, warns his uncle of the coming danger from orcs, Grima accuses Eomer of being a warmonger and has him banished from Edoras, after getting Theoden to sign an "official order." Grima Wormtongue is a very apt name for this character and as with many names in the whole work, it is no mistake.
This image can be directly applied to real World Jewish subversion of national leaderships. The United States government is a perfect example and it doesn't take very much research to see that while the US President is (and always has) been a Gentile, the amount of Zionist Jews in the Presidential Cabinet has been ever increasing. This allows the subversive agents to be very influential with a direct link to national leadership (right at its side and whispering into its ear), while also being able to take zero responsibility for any failures of their puppet since they didn't "officially" make the decision - they merely "advised" and "suggested." This allows them to place a weak leader in order to attempt to execute a strong (and possibly even noble) plan, but the inability of the leader will be ignored upon the inevitable and calculated failure upon which it will be the plan, not the leader, that will be labeled as "ineffective." Next, very quickly, the opposite plan will be implemented, which was the scheme all along. The other possible subversive course is if a leader gets too near a controversy of some sort (often even this can be engineered as well), he can be promptly removed and a new puppet, one ready to listen or take the fall, can be then installed. The overall point is that while leadership constantly changes, the parasitic agents always remain. And the masses still wonder why change hasn't come as initially (and repeatedly) "promised."
Consider the motto of the Israeli Mossad: "Where there is no guidance, a nation falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety." The subversive factor is that these "counselors" are actually placed in foreign nations; they are the parasitic advisors who funnel an able nation's resources to the Jews. The United States gives Israel a large, yearly, and unconditonal sum of money, military equipment, and aid. This is the real World's biggest example of "guidance" and "counselors" which via secrecy and brainwashing is kept from the American public. However, there are some who are well aware of this.
Grima's mission is to ensure that division and indecision keeps Rohan in a weak and disorganized status quo with everyone hesitant about what to do and how to do it. Gandalf, now as Arhat, easily sees through this charade and quickly reveals the real nature of this corner of the chessboard. Grima, confronted with reality and unmasked, flees in shame without any of the prizes that were promised him. King Theoden is tempted to strike Grima down, but is held back by Aragorn and promptly realizes that impulsive reactions cannot be the solution to their present situation. So, King Theoden was not only freed from his mind prison and reverted back to his normal human state, but also has begun to act more nobly, thus is taking his own small, but sure, steps out of the ignobility that plagues the men of Middle Earth.
When pulling Theoden out of Saruman's spell Gandalf says a very interesting line to describe the situation, "like poison from a wound." This applies directly to the method Zionist subversion, which secretly frightens its puppets with some infliction of false flag terror and then claims to have all the remedies, which are then implemented by parasitic advisors. However, it is those elements that are the poison, the "spell," which then keeps the puppet under appropriate control. Gandalf snaps Theoden out of just such a condition.
Gandalf then advises King Theodon on the best course of action and this is, no surprise here, a militarist plan - the Folk of Rohan are to set aside their differences with the Folk of Gondor and meet their shared enemy in battle.
An interesting visual detail, which can be seen in the screen shot above, is that there is a Gnostic Cross in the design of the throne and it is right by the King's head when he is sitting up straight. However, when he was under Saruman's spell, Theodeon was slumped and slightly angled away from the Cross and towards the traitor Grima.
The Battle of Helm's Deep
This is an interesting development in the story since going to Helm's Deep seems to contradict Gandalf's advice of militarist action. However, due to Gandalf not really protesting the decision all that much, but in fact going along with it, the decision and motivations behind it are militarist and they certainly achieve such results.
The Battle of Helm's Deep will later be seen as a mirror of the final battle by the Black Gate of Mordor. At Helm's Deep, evil marches to confront good, while later at the Black Gate, good will go to confront evil. The overall strategy of this move is also a dynamic opposite to Sauron's strategy of divide and conquer. By hiding in the defensible position of Helm's Deep, Theoden evens out the odds of facing Saruman's great army of orcs, but also, in effect, denies cooperation between Saruman's army and Sauron's army. The move comes at a heavy cost and many lives are lost, but it seems men just can't help but using the enemies' weapons against them! Though, the weapon here was the general strategic move, a counter move to be more precise, thus Theoden did not succumb to the power of the Ring or sellout his honor in any way. The members of the Fellowship may have felt somewhat aggravated by Theoden not doing things exactly as they imagined, but they realized that Theoden is a sovereign leader and must be allowed to enact his own leadership in his own lands. The victory at Helm's Deep was a tough one to achieve, but it effectively united Rohan and destroyed a key part of the False Dichotomy set up by Sauron - Isengard's army is annihilated.
A strange, and seemingly out of place, event in the battle is when the orcs breach the fortress's outer wall with some powerful explosives, which they placed at its base in a key weak point - a drain. These bombs are set off in a suicide run by a torch bearing orc and the most frustrating part of this scene is that Legolas fails to bring him down despite launching two arrows. This is the only time Legolas misses and it's twice in a row. However, this is not so much of a plot point and an excuse to show a big explosion as it is a reflection on how the Dark Forces in the story work. The orcs' initial mass storming of the wall served as a cover to plant the bombs; Aragorn and Legolas realized too late what is going on and the mines were detonated. This progression by deception is exactly what Sauron is doing and him getting ahold of the Ring would be just like the bombs going off here - only the swarm unleashed then wouldn't even be winnable in a pyrrhic victory for the Good in Middle Earth.
The end of the battle at Helm's Deep has some interesting symbolism. Gandalf rides down a giant slope with Rohan's Cavalry and the rising Sun, the light of the Swastika, blinds the orcs/golems and they are decimated with the scattered remaining ranks fleeing into the nearby Fangorn Forest where the living trees finish them for good.
The triumphant army of Rohan, which now includes Eomer and his Riders, is set to be part of the overall Kampf against the Dark Lord Sauron.
Ents and the Battle of Isengard
The Ents are an interesting addition to the story and the third of major plot lines in The Two Towers. This plot is the one with Merry and Pippin who were kidnapped at the end of the last film and Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli set out after them. However, they met Gandalf who told of his fight with the Balrog and assured the Fellowship members that the Hobbits are safe.
Merry and Pippin escape during a fight at the orc camp, Eomer and his Riders ambushed the Uruk-Hai, and the two little Hobbits fled to the nearby wood. There they found out that the trees are not just alive... but alive and moving! These tree beings are then Ents who safeguard and care for the forest. As a metaphor, this is directly applicable to the Aryan notion of the unity of all things under the Sun, as symbolized by the Swastika or any other of the many Sun symbols, which all derive from the Aryan Swastika. In brief, the trees join the Kampf! This plotline also shows that Merry and Pippin are maturing as warriors and, in fact, are on their own respective journeys of ascent out of their natural Hobbit condition. Each one has a role in getting the Ents to rally against Saruman. Much like Men, the Ents rise up to the call of duty after being shown the destructive possibilities of the Dark Lord's plan; the Ents see that Saruman has destroyed much of their forest to fuel his industrial forges and create his army.
With this sight, the Ents see that they must spring into action and march on Isengard. The ensuing battle has more Aryan symbolism as the golem foundries fueled by artificial fires are flooded with a great river that Saruman had blocked to allow his industry to expand. This is an image of natural life overcoming the artificial - water snuffs the foundries and the Ents smash the orcs - the trees shatter the golems.
An interesting visual detail here is that the walled compound that is now at the center of Isengard, and the one that the Ents flood and destroy, has six sections as can be seen below - three diameters in a circle means it has been partitioned into six parts. Thus, a six-pointed icon that has been forcibly scorched into the face of Middle Earth is destroyed in this battle.
The Kampf Continues
One side of the False and Forced Dichotomy has been destroyed, however, the struggle is far from over. In the ruins of the city of Osigiliath, Faramir realizes that he cannot bring the Ring to his father, Denethor, even though he is very anxious to please his father who doesn't seem to appreciate his efforts. This is a very important step and the defining moment between Boromir and Faramir - both were faced with the same choice and both chose differently and thus wound up on very different paths.
Interesting is that Osigiliath, a destroyed city, resembles the halls of Moria, which is no surprise as both fell to the same plague. Frodo and Sam left Moria in despair, but now they press on in their journey with a new found hope, which Sam describes in a monologue. "Some things are worth fighting for" - he is basically talking about Aryan ideals of civilization. Gollum also has a final monologue, with himself, and he continues his scheme of trying get his hands on the Ring. He even seems to suggest that he wants to keep it for himself and not give it Sauron, which reflects his true nature of serving only himself, which is a trait that ultimately even Sauron possesses.
Next, the Kampf will go on to its two greatest tasks - facing Sauron's Army in battle, which will require the alliance of Gondor; and the destroying of the Ring, which will require entering Mordor.
V - Events and Places
Volume III: The Return of the King
Once again, we pick up right where the previous film left off. The nation of Rohan had achieved victory in the battle at Helm's Deep, which also resulted in Saruman's army being destroyed. In story dynamics, it means that the False Dichotomy had been exposed and one side of it has been put to an end. However, Men are easy to claim victory and settle down after one hard fought battle and it will still take some convincing, a final push, to unite the two nations of Rohan and Gondor.
Frodo and Sam, with Gollum, are getting ever closer to Mordor and this is increasingly allowing for Gollum to be more cunning with his trickery.
The Fall of Saruman and Isengard
The Ents have completely destroyed Saruman's surrounding compound by flooding it with a river from the mountains. The only thing left standing is the tower, Orthanc. In the books this is explained by revealing that Orthanc is actually one great piece of unbreakable stone and the Ents were not able to bring it down. This bit seems to be only implied in the film. However, Saruman has locked himself inside and is at a loss of what to due after suffering such a defeat. Gandalf and company arrive offering Saruman peace if he only tells them what he knows of Sauron's plan. Quite predictably, evil and ego go hand in hand, thus Saruman still thinks he can cause some damage, first by insulting Theoden and by shooting a fireball at Gandalf. This proves folly as Gandalf is now an Arhat. In The Fellowship of the Ring, Saruman easily defeated Gandalf in a wizard duel, but now it is Gandalf who defeats Saruman by breaking his staff with so much as a snap of his fingers.
Grima Wormtongue, Saruman's former agent in Edoras, is here too and Theoden honorably allows Grima to redeem himself and join the forces of good. However, the selfishness of Saruman once again comes out and he scolds his servant for even considering such an option, which in turn angers Grima who jumps at Saruman with a dagger only to be shot down by Legolas, but not before he wounds Saruman who falls from the tower! Quite the quick series of events, but it shows very well how volatile the power-hungry really are, as well as where it often leads them to. The first sequence of this third film is actually an elaboration on the back story of Smeagol/Gollum and it shows how he was, still as a happy little hobbit, fishing with his friend, Deagol, who by chance found the Ring resting on the riverbed. In less than a minute, after the both of them have had a good look at the Ring, they are fighting to kill each other over it; such are the selfish, such are those divided by greed for material possession. In the end, the only winner is the force that initially tore them apart.
With Saruman's final bane the theme of falling can been seen once again. There is even a special tracking shot of Saruman's plunge, much like the previous film did with Gandalf, thus it can readily be identified as a key image and idea. Saruman's fall is also his end; he is impaled on a spoke of a wheel and pulled under water into darkness and death. The spoke wheel can be seen as a metaphorical Gnostic Cross or Sun Wheel. In Slavic mythology, the kołowrót or kolovrat (literally - "spinning wheel" and sometimes Anglicized as collowrath), is a Sun symbol and it comes from the practical tool of the wheel in a well's pulley system, which is course a farmer's tool and thus an Aryan one. The symbol is also sometimes referred to as a Slavic Swastika.
It is this that finally puts an end to Saruman, thus making his death not just physical, but also spiritual. This is a direct opposite to Gandalf who became more physically able and spiritually stronger after his fall and battle with the Balrog. This sequence is also a pretty big deviation from the source material, but that will be covered in Part VI.
Some interesting details here are that Theoden clearly shows to not be under affected by Saruman's voice and magic anymore. This suggests that he is stronger in spirit than before. When Saruman shoots the fireball, the framing of the shot shows the flame swooping down from the top of the symmetrically framed tower, which not only mirrors the power of Sauron's fiery Eye atop Barad-Dur, but also general theme of the Eye of Zion atop the pyramid on the back of the Dollar Bill. The situation is getting dire for the elite at the top, thus they do not just send their golems out anymore, they themselves begin to lash out at those mobilized in revolution.
Return to Edoras and the Next Step
With Edoras saved and the nation of Rohan secure from immediate aggression, the Men do what Gentiles most often do in such a situation - bring out the kegs and mugs and serve ale all around! The Hobbits, of course, join in the celebration. However, Gandalf and Aragorn know that there is still much work to be done. One tower from the False Dichotomy may have fallen, but the other still remains strong. King Theoden has a typically Gentile grudge against Gondor, which he claims didn't answer his own nation's need for help, thus he doesn't have to help Gondor.
There are also new complications from the fact that Merry, being a curious, but not all that wise, Hobbit, looked into the Palanthir, which was the stone that Saruman had used to communicate with Sauron. This, effectively, gives Sauron a glimpse of what is going on in Edoras as well as make him think that Merry has the Ring of Power. Gandalf leaves with Merry for Minas Tirith, which is the main city in Gondor and that nation borders with Mordor. This will keep Sauron's gaze away from Rohan and closer to his own lands, though unfortunately it puts Gondor on the path of imminent danger.
The Great City of Minas Tirith
Minas Tirith is perhaps the grandest set piece in the entire film trilogy, as well as the location of the most spectacular battles - first the Siege of Gondor, which is almost immediately followed by the Battle of Pelennor Fields.
With its large scope and precise design, the architecture of Minas Tirith is a beacon from an Aryan imagination. The uniform stone design with not one block or corner wasted is what the greatest Roman architect or Albert Speer strived to achieve in one of their projects. Interestingly, Minas Tirith was inspired by a real location that can be visited to this day: Le Mont St-Michel in Normandy, France. This is a key to understanding the very Aryan symbolism of Minas Tirith.
The very top of Le Mont St-Michel is an abbey, while the top of Minas Tirith is the hall of the King of Gondor. This reinforces the Aryan idea of a leader not just being a political leader, but also a spiritual leader - one with a vision and capability for achieving Greatness in his nation. "Le Mont St-Michel" literally means the "The Mount of Saint Michael," referring to the Archangel who struck down the devil with his sword. This can be directly applied to the sword that Aragorn now wields as heir to the throne of Gondor and also to the idea of an Aryan leader being both militarist and spiritual - in effect, being rendition of a warrior angel like Saint Michael. Aragorn will slowly rise to an image very much like this and in the final battle even wears a cape that can be seen as resembling angel wings. The soldiers of Gondor also have wings in the designs of their helmets, they are wrapped around either side.
As Gandalf first rides up to the King's Hall, there is a good view of the courtyard at the top of Minas Tirith, which is basically one big Gnostic Cross. The two statues here also have wings on their helmets, though these actually stick out and this just makes the warrior angel symbolism all the more apparent.
The Final Key to the Grand Alliance
The leadership of Minas Tirith has, like so many other things, been divided. Currently, it is Denethor who sits on the throne, but he is just the Steward, which is a post that perhaps can be best described as "first officer to the King." An important position, one that takes on full leadership responsibilities in the King's absence, but ultimately the Steward is not the top leader. Denethor knows this and has been corrupted by the power that he was entrusted with. Perhaps this comes at no surpise, since Denethor is father of Boromir who also fell to the power of the Ring. There is no direct indicator that Denethor is being manipulated by Sauron, but there is much that suggests that he is in fact under a spell.
First, he is acting horribly irresponsibly in his post. Even if he was a selfish leader who was only interested in saving his own skin, he wouldn't just sit around waiting for his city to be pillaged. Second, we first see him slumped in his throne grieving over the death of Boromir whose broken horn he holds. This is where the theme of duality comes into play. Denethor is effectively the mirror image of Theoden who was also under a spell in his throne. Now, there is no parasitic agent manipulating Denethor, but Grima the traitor wasn't the source of the spell on Theoden, it was Saruman, who was in the bordering territory of Isengard, up in his tower working the magic. Who do we have next to Gondor? Why, it's Sauron himself as Mordor borders with Gondor. Surely, Sauron is a much more powerful spell-maker than Saruman, thus doesn't need a petty agent nudging his puppet along. He can just put his target into an irrational state of grievance, stirred from the death of a son, and thus have him be an impotent leader for just long enough as an army of orcs marches over from Mordor. The maddened Denethor even refuses to call for aid from Rohan and he is even more stubborn about Gondor-Rohan relations than Theoden was seen to be. Thus, Gandalf must step into action - he has Merry light the beacons signaling Rohan for help and then he himself rallies the soldiers of Gondor right after Denethor had lost his mind and ordered a pointless retreat. The weak and overcome Denethor eventually goes mad and tries to burn his one living son alive, but ends up burning himself and falling (another key fall in the storyline) from the top of his own city.
Theoden, who has shown to be tougher in spirit, rises to the call of duty and answers the message from the beacons. Thus, the much needed alliance is finally settled, but Rohan needs to muster enough military power to smite Mordor's forces. After two days of calling all able men to arms, Theoden and company know that they do not have nearly as much soldiers as they hoped, but they ride into battle anyway. In doing so, they effectively ensure that what Sauron fears most, men uniting with one common purpose, not only happens, but those men then ride battle ready right up to Sauron's doorstep to put an end to all of his deception.
The Importance of the Oath
While Rohan's army rides on into battle with militarist perseverance, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli, have gone into the depths of an old mountain. They are looking for an old army, long since dead, but cursed and trapped in stone for abandoning their former master Isildur in battle. As Isildur's heir, and now with his ancestor's sword, Aragorn ihas the chance to get these ghosts to fight, which will provide a winning chance for the Alliance, as well as allowing old tortured souls finally be at peace.
The Army of Dead has some interesting symbolism around it. In effect, they are living beings forced into stone. The mountain that they inhabit is said to be "evil" and has this particular aura around it, not a visible one, but one in the metaphysical sense. It is no ordinary mountain and for all intents and purposes, it should not be this way. This idea of having a life force trapped in stone is representative of the golem theme that we have with the orcs. The orcs are artificial beings forced into a certain existence, which is a condition akin to the men trapped in the stone mountain. The key difference is that the golems have been made by evil to serve evil, while the men were formerly good and have been punished for a great misdeed - reduced down to an artificial state of being until they fulfill their oath.
Their rising up to the call of duty, which results in them being free from their torment in death, is also what Boromir went through, albeit over the course of minutes not millennia! Like the Army of Dead, Boromir gave his word to fulfill a task, but was overcome by the Ring and effectively abandoned his duty. However, he realized this an snapped out of the spell and saved Merry and Pippin in battle, but received mortal wounds in doing so. However, he passed on in honor. The Army of Dead, too abandoned their duty long ago, but now snap out of their spell, leave the confinement of stone (un-become golems by their own will), and go to fight for their former master's heir. The theme here is a return to honor and it can also be seen in the line of Denethor (father), Boromir (first son), and Faramir (younger son) - Denethor succumbed to madness from being under spell and died in shame; Boromir fell under a spell, but snapped out of it, and died with honor; Faramir was tempted, but never succumbed, and goes on to live in honor.
So as we can see, the Kampf to overcome the spell of Sauron is also a whole lot of inner-revolutions by individuals as well as the Grand Alliance of Nations and Folk against him. Each member, down to the individual soldier, faces his own inner battle with spirit, in many instances even when already wielding a sword against Sauron. For many may fight, but only the Noble, the Aryans, fight by motivations from a profound spiritual insight as to what they're doing and why - that is the essence of Kampf.
The Trek into Mordor
Frodo and Sam, with Gollum, who have steadily been making their way to Mordor, have finally reached that feared place. Much like with the others facing their toughest challenge, they now face theirs. Climbing up a hidden set of stairs as indicated by Gollum, they are nearing a way past the massive mountain walls of Mordor - a certain tunnel and Gollum seems to have some particular plans brewing with this place. Gollum has been slyly working to get Frodo to resent Sam and to making Frodo suspect that his friend is trying to betray him. This takes its final step during a rest along the steps during which Gollum sets up a situation to make it look like Sam has been stealing bread. Sam, who Gollum knows is frustrated with him, lashes out at Gollum who plays the pathetic, innocent victim. The ruse, of which this is the last step, finally works - Frodo tells Sam to leave on the pretense that the trip is taking its toll on him and that he is hindering progress.
Frodo is, of course, thoroughly convinced that he did the right thing and this is because he did it from his own will - this is the key to Judaic manipulation. It is not the manipulating of the pawns to get them to move where the puppet master wants, it is the manipulating of the playing field so that he pawns move by their own will where the puppet master wants, thus giving the illusion of free choice. The Zionist chessboard isn't literal, it's metaphorical - it is more like The Matrix or the alien infestation in They Live. Due to his madness which was accentuated by the loss of his son, Denethor was absolutely convinced that he was doing the right thing. As was Isildur when he tried to control the Ring. The spell was on their minds. Gollum has just orchestrated such a situation with Frodo and Sam and tore two friends apart - the unimportant one is out of the way, while the one with the Ring is walking into a trap. There is no need to snatch the Ring, there is just the need to get Frodo to drop it.
Sam had had been honest throughout the entire journey and soon sees proof of the ploy that had been played; he promptly rushes back up to help his friend. Frodo on the other hand sees that the tunnel is not just any old tunnel, but actually a lair of a giant spider-beast, Shelob. He just barely makes it out of there when Gollum reappears and now just flat out tries to take the Ring in angry frustration that his plan of having Frodo eaten by Shelob didn't work. Frodo has taken a heavy toll mentally and physically and still doesn't fully see what Gollum is doing, or starts to pity him once again after another pathetic "victim" excuse. However, when Gollum leaps at him again, Frodo manages to roll him off of a cliff... this is actually a bit of luck and Frodo's full commitment to destroying the Ring is still to be tested.
Shelob comes out of her lair and sneaks up Frodo stinging him as he looks where to go. Luckliy, Sam shows up and fights the beast off with Frodo's sword, but also with the vial of light, the Light of the Star Elendil. The theme of light is present throughout the whole storyline and all golems in the Lord of the Rings despise natural light, but especially sunlight. It is no surpirse that the Swastika, a Sun symbol, is looked at with disgust by Zionist pests.
Frodo is not dead after being stung, but rather just completely limp for a few hours, as Sam overhears some orcs talking, but they take Frodo to their fortress, Cirith Ungol. Sam has much of his work cut out for him, as the garrison at the fort begins to fight after an argument breaks out over Frodo's shiny armor. This would have been a pretty lame plot device, since it makes Sam's rescue of Frodo much easier, but as we have seen: orcs are very volatile in temper and spiritually weak beings succumb to materialism quicker. Thus, it is no surprise that something so small sets some orcs off in a brawl, and no surpise that the whole garrison joins in.
Thematically, this is also very consistent. The essence of Sauron's power, symbolic of usury based power, is highly unstable and demands constant manipulations to keep afloat. Also, the orcs/golems are the dynamic opposite of the members that set out on the Kampf against Sauron. Thus, the golems fight without purpose or for whatever little reason they feel like fighting over in a brawl of disunity - while the Noble Warriors on the Kampf fight for a very specific purpose and are united because of it.
The Final Tasks
Theoden's Riders arrived and helped break the siege at Minas Tirith, while Aragorn showed up shortly thereafter with his Army of Dead and helped take down the Men of the South and the Corsairs, allies of Sauron. Interestingly, those particular groups were said to be mercenaries, or soldiers for hire, and thus another version that stands opposite of the Noble Warriors. That makes for three types of motivation to be found in the groups on the battlefield - Noble Warriors motivated by Kampf; Mercenaries driven by promise of gold; and Orcs, brainless golems just doing what they're told - the "anti-purpose."
After defeating all in the battlefield the next decision is the key Final Task for the Alliance of Middle Earth Folk - to meet Sauron's remaining forces by the Black Gate so that Mordor is empty and Frodo can destroy the Ring in Mount Doom. They set out from Minas Tirith.
The success now depends on Frodo who must accomplish his Final Task - destroying the Ring. Note that the final changes that take place physically are in conjunction with changes that take place metaphysically. Gimli who had been stubborn about allying with Men and Elves, went on to accept this, but still poked fun at the fact, as did Legolas. In the Battle of Pelennor Fields, as in Helm's Deep, they were competing to see who can kill the most orcs and Gimli would say "may the best Dwarf win!" Then he got jealous that Legolas managed to take down an entire War Oliphant, complete with crew, single-handedly. As they stand by the Black Gate and watch a massive orc army pour out, Gimli makes yet another remark in the same vein, but Legolas quickly responds and a profound realization sets in.
That is the essence of camaraderie, which all warriors in a Kampf must come to realize, and in Lord of the Rings, they do. They form a diverse army, comprised of members from every Folk in Middle Earth, to smite their common enemy who has been ever manipulating and causing turmoil for everyone. This multi-ethnic alliance, to many peoples’ surprise, actually has precedent in the real World - that would be the real-life military unit that was as ethnically diverse as a World Map - The Waffen SS.
Meanwhile...
Frodo approaches Mount Doom and stands at the edge of the grand foundry where the Ring was made. Gollum had reappeared just before he and Sam went in, but Sam managed to hold him off to allow Frodo time to toss the Ring in. However, this final moment, the Final Task, is one of will. Just like for Aragorn and the Alliance of Middle Earth, the hard part was not marching up to the gate and drawing swords, it was getting themselves to do it and then standing ground as they see the orcs pour out. Likewise, for Frodo, a simple toss is not the hard part, but the building up the will to make the toss. It is breaking out of the mind prison set up by Sauron, to any wearer the Ring appears as the most “precious” thing in existence, just like facing Sauron’s army appears as the most hopeless thing in existence - it is all part of Sauron’s spell to ensure his preservation - it is the engineering of the playing field to get pawns to go where he wants them to be and do what he demands of them. And so Frodo... puts on the Ring... immediately Sauron senses this and sends the Nazgul after him.
Gollum, long since completely overcome by his lust for the Ring, will never stop in trying to get it and attacks Frodo, after seeing his footprints, and bites of his finger, which finally puts him in possession of “the Precious.” The next scene is key since it shows that Frodo finally stands up to the task and overcomes Sauron's illusion. Just outside of Shelob’s lair, he had a bit of luck with rolling Gollum off of a cliff, but here actually does it intentionally and Gollum plunges down into the molten rock. Note the shot - it is tracking shot of not just a character falling, but also of the Ring. There is one more key fall, the final one, and it occurs right after the Ring lands in the volcanic river.
The floating Ring is soon consumed by the molten flow, it is pulled under the surface of Middle Earth never to return; this causes the tower of Barad-Dur to crumble and the Eye of Sauron to topple from its peak and burst, rifting the earth in a great shockwave and pulling down all of the parasitic creations deep into the bowels of Baphomet’s Hell.
Frodo and Sam manage to escape the erupting Mount Doom, but get stranded on the slope as lava streams surround them. It all seems hopeless, but then Gandalf shows up with a flight of eagles and both Frodo and Sam are taken by an eagle in its mighty, yet in this case also gentle, talon. It is certainly an interesting image and it is no coincidence that it bears striking compositional resemblance to the Luftwaffe insignia that can be seen in this blog's banner - the eagle is holding the source of salvation which has brought about a New Order.
The New Age and The New Order
A New Age of Unity and Nobility then settles peacefully onto Middle Earth. Aragorn’s final monologue at his coronation on the Gnostic Cross Courtyard of Minas Tirith effectively says: “Let there be Unity through Nobility.” The original Fellowship is still together in friendship and lasting mutual respect. The lands of Men can be seen as soon to be fully united as Faramir and Eowyn - a Son of Gondor and a Daughter of Rohan - have taken romantic interest in one another.
In The Two Towers there is a brief scene where Aragorn’s ancestry is mentioned, and the nation that he belonged to, as well as its dispersal, which reflects what happened to the Aryans in our real World - scattered with the occasional rising up throughout history. However, in this highly romanticized tale, the Aryan doesn’t just rise up and accomplish some feat, he actually ensures the setting up of a kingdom founded on Aryan ideals. This is made all the more clear with the arrival of Arwen right after Aragorn’s coronation. She is an immortal Elf, but chooses a mortal life with purpose, over an immortal life that’s empty. By staying in Middle Earth and taking Aragorn’s hand, she also effectively ensures that the new King will have an heir, thus she is actually playing a very key (though totally off screen!) role in the well-being of the nation of Gondor.
There is still some ground to cover with Lord of the Rings and that will be wrapped up in the concluding chapter.
VI - Conclusion
After Aragorn's coronation as the new King of Gondor, the goals of the Kampf that the Fellowship set out on, have finally been accomplished. There is a spiritual progression throughout all of Middle Earth, but especially in the members of the Fellowship. Gandalf had ascended to Arhat much earlier, but now Frodo and Aragorn effectively join him. Also, given his ancestry, Aragorn taking his rightful (and dutiful) place on the throne at Minas Tirith is effectively the first major step in the reemergence of the Aryan civilization. However, since all key Aryan traits are not ethnic specific, the new standard of nobility that is now in place throughout Middle Earth is the real meaningful reemergence of Aryanism. One Aryan leader wouldn't mean much without a noble folk supporting him.
The Hobbits return to their Shire and most of the residents here are completely unaware just how monumental the past thirteen months have been. With their noble character, Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin expect no thanks, they just know that what they did was right and that's enough. This change of character can be seen as they share a pint of ale in their favorite tavern, the Green Dragon. They just sit in silence, with a sigh of relief, do a "cheers" and take a few relaxing sips of the ale that they haven't had for over a year. Note that in the background, the other Hobbits behave like, well, like Hobbits; they're rowdy and inebriated, but they do mean well, though only in a humanist (or maybe hobbitist?) sense. Our four little friends, however, have become conscious of Arya and Universalism. It also gives Sam that extra bit of confidence he needs to finally profess his love for Rosie, the alewife at the tavern.
The Scouring of the Shire
There is a very large deviation from the source material in this concluding series of scenes. In general, everything ends up in the films as it does in the books, but one key episode was omitted from the film version: the chapter entitled "The Scouring of the Shire."
This chapter begins right when Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin are returning to the lands of their Hobbit kin, but soon realize that something is very wrong. In short, the Shire has been over-run by thugs and also has been turned into crude industrial complex. To our heroes' surprise, it is all the work of Saruman along with his servant, Grima. In fact, what has been done in the Shire seems to mirror what happened at Isengard with the massive golem foundry for making orcs.
With this key episode Tolkien has effectively illustrated the arid hate and parasitic persistence that drives the Jewish subversion of nations and cultures; if one place doesn't work out, flee and hide for while until another opportunity is ready to be exploited. The forcing of destructive industrialization represents Tolkien's own fears from what he saw happen to the English countryside as many nations and economies started to get more and more mechanized. However, the well versed Tolkien must have also known about such things going on in the USSR and this is where the "rule by terror" notion seen in the story can be applied. It is a well known fact that at least 75% of all Soviet Commissars were atheistic Jews and they hated priests, yet held rabbis in high esteem, which of course, makes it plain that they just announced themselves as atheists, but secretly continued to practice Judaism. This also makes plain as to why the Soviet regime destroyed churches, but left synagogues standing. Saruman's actions in the Shire here are basically a line by line account of Bolshevik terror, but guised in story and metaphor.
Despite this different chapter in the book, Saruman's fate is very similar in both book and film. In both instances, Grima jumps up at him with a knife, but is then cut down by some well aimed archery. Though, in the book it is the Hobbits that fire the arrows. This also brings us to a key factor of message subversion. The movie shows the Hobbits living a peaceful life and not worrying about anything - all the important events take place elsewhere. Most people living today are in a situation analogous to Hobbit life - there is work, family, and job with the great big World beyond this immediate sphere and it is primarily seen through the media. Thus, the film's message is "don't worry, someone capable will fix all those horrible things you hear about." There is no doubt that Tolkien was well aware of the dangerous folly of such thinking and thus made it clear that ALL nations and folks must be ready to stand up and fight - even happy little Hobbits.
This review of the film The Dark Knight also examines the idea of ordinary people needing to unite to solve the plagues of their nation. Note the last section on the character, Brian.
Saruman's death in the film has metaphysical metaphors as we identified in Part V - he gets impaled on a symbolic Aryan Sun Wheel - while in the book he is driven out by Hobbit militarism with his death being a little more pitiful - he dies from the volatility of the situation that he is ultimately responsible for getting himself into. These two endings may take a different route, but wind up at the same meaning. The spoke wheel from the film could also be a link to Buddhism, which is an ideology that thoroughly rejects nefarious Talmudic materialism.
Some Other Matters
Galadriel's Ring, which only shows up in one brief scene, can be seen to have six-points as the Judaic hexagram. However, Galadriel's ring is a flower, not a star, and on close examination you can see that the petals are "swooshed" to give it a spinning, or even Sun Wheel, appearance. The connection between Flower and Sun furthers this idea, thus the Rings that the Elves made to get knowledge about Middle Earth are shown as flowers to mean something along the lines of "blooming knowledge" from the Sun Wheel - the Swastika. Also, Galadriel's Ring is silver, while Sauron's Ring is gold. There is no doubt that a currency and monetary theme is at play here. Here some some interesting articles on the Aryan qualities of silver.
Perhaps the design choice of six petals was meant to appease Hollywood Jews, who just smelled a ton of money from the potential box-office success of an adaptation of such a popular book, but they didn't bother to look deeper and see that all the film's coherent symbolism and themes are actually Aryan!
Even the idea of the Elves "going West" has been inverted from its apparent Judaic/Masonic meaning. This was, of course, done by Tolkien long before the movie was made. In Freemasonry, when someone dies they are said to "go West." Tolkien ridiculed this idea by having immortal Elves go West! He flipped the Masonic idea on its head and probably had a good laugh about it. In the film version the last shot of the boat "going West" and into the Sun suggests that the departing Arhats are becoming one with Arya. It also looks a lot like a Viking funeral rite, in which the body was placed on a boat that was then lit as a funeral pyre and cast out towards the setting Sun. So, there are many interlocking metaphors here (as well as the satire) and they all tie in with Aryanism.
The one problematic thing seems to be that the one literal pyre that appears in the film is linked with Denethor's madness. Also, the dead at Rohan are buried in mounds. However, since the film takes place in the Third Age, before the Return of the King and Aryan Nobility, this can explain the lack of Aryanism in the lifestyles of much of the established nations.
Lastly, there is the idea of racial interpretation. The Gnostic Cross, which makes key appearances in the Hall of the King in Rohan and in the Royal Courtyard in Minas Tirith, is often used by White Nationalists. This can be seen on the main page of websites like "Stormfront" among others. This interpretation can be further solidified by the fact that all the good human characters appear to be Ethnic Europeans, while the bad humans are "The Men of the South" who can be seen as Moors or Arabs or even as Africans. Despite this, the racial interpretation is totally false. First off, the Corsairs who are mercenaries hired by Sauron, are shown to have many Whites among them, if not mostly Whites. Second, the orcs, who can occasionally be heard to speak English, have accents that can be heard around the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Thus, if race is applied to them, they'd could very well be White, though not necessarily due to the diverse population of those nations. The point is that this kind of interpretation of supposed racial supremacy falls flat on its face and cannot be made coherent through the whole story. Tolkien himself said that allegory was never his intention, but applicability. The only aspects that are coherent enough to be applied to our World are not racial, but folkist. Tolkien was advocating the unification of groups of folk. Note that this is precisely where he ends the core plot of his tale - when the various folk have united within their own nation, which then went on with noble relations with their neighboring folk, and this caused the defeat of their common enemy.
Also, as far as the Gnostic Cross goes, it should be noted that many non-racists, but racialists (a.k.a. folkists), use that symbol in their imagery and it is they who have an accurate understanding of its universalist symbolism.
Final Thoughts
The Aryan elements far outweigh the un-Aryan in The Lord of the Rings films. Even those un-Aryan elements that were introduced as part of the screen adaptation's production were nowhere near powerful enough to subvert Tolkien's themes. I have reviewed many films here, but this trilogy is, without a doubt, vital to authentic Aryanist revolution. Most of the other films that I have looked at only enjoy notice from small, but devoted, fan bases. The Lord of the Rings, however, is known and available worldwide in both its original literary version and in this very faithful film adaptation, which makes it one of the strongest elements that we have active on The Storytelling Front.
Volume II: The Two Towers
The story picks up right where the previous installment left off. The Fellowship had been separated by the Falls of Rauros and now three parties push on with the Grand Task. I have said that the Fellowship wasn't really "broken" (as the chapter title seems to suggest), but that it is still intact and it is just different duties that sent the members in different directions. This idea is confirmed by the Extended Edition DVD, which includes a map of the Fellowship's trek on the box art. The map on the first film's DVD box shows the Fellowship's path from the Shire and to the Falls of Rauros, thus the Fellowship was formed much earlier than it was formalized by Elrond, simply new members joined the mission. In the box art to The Two Towers, there is also a map, but now with three paths - that of Frodo and Sam; that of Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli; and that of Merry and Pippin, who go through a similar change that their two Shire kin have already begun to experience.
Frodo and Sam's Journey
The first of three major plot lines in the film. Frodo and Sam are traveling through a chain of mountains and the journey is starting to take a heavy toll on Frodo. First, he has a nightmare about Gandalf's fall from the Bridge of Kazad-Dum in Moria. Second, the weight of the Ring is making him ever weary and seems to be altering his body. Sam notices that Frodo is eating and sleeping very little, thus it must be the Ring that is somehow driving him and this condition of being artificially alive are the first steps that led to Smeagol's degradation into the Gollum.
Gollum is also introduced as a character here - previously he had just been an ominous background stalker as seen in The Fellowship of the Ring. Frodo connects with Gollum in a way and he seems to at least partly understand Gollum's condition, since he himself is going through what Gollum went through years and years ago. Sam, on the other hand, is very wary of Gollum and suspects him to be pulling a two-faced trick so that he can get his hands on the Ring, which he repeatedly calls "the Precious." Gollum may be just a goy of Sauron, though he is a clever goy and promptly begins to use the Dark Lord's favorite tactic of divide and conquer. Gollum knows that he cannot overpower both Hobbits at the same time, especially since Sam is not falling for his charade, so he starts to sow discord between the two Hobbits. This is subtle at first, such as calling Frodo "Master" and belittling Sam as "the fat Hobbit," which, in effect, places them on opposite ends of a forced dichotomy - one is held in esteem, the other in disgust. Through constant repetition, this mindset of Gollum's begins to settle into the minds of Frodo and Sam and the seeds of conflict start to sprout. The first argument that the two of them have is after being with the Gollum for a few days, yet they were best of friends before. Thus, this new found callousness they have towards each other (though mainly Frodo towards Sam) must have been subversively introduced - first by the Ring and then further stirred by Gollum, which is basically just the same process as both serve the Dark Lord.
Gollum's inner conflict is also a mirror of Frodo and Sam's brewing conflict. The theme of duality seems to be very pervasive in Lord of the Rings, and due to the great length and scope of the work, Tolkien was able to demonstrate not just a great many possibilities, but their opposites as well -- Boromir and Faramir; Saruman and Gandalf; Denethor (whom we still have to meet) and Theoden; Gollum/Smeagol and Frodo & Sam. In all instances, one side is seduced by evil, while the other rises up to the call of duty, note that this does not always mean survival.
The destructive efficiency of evil hopes that by making one side fall, the other side will be pulled down trying to save it. This image of a forced dichotomy that is engineered to destroy is the main theme of this chapter and the first great task of the Fellowship is to counter it.
Dichotomy of the Two Towers
There are two literal towers in the film, Orthanc in Isengard and Barad-Dur in Mordor. These titular towers represent the Grand False Dichotomy that the Dark Lord is using to divide the nations of Middle Earth, but mainly the two nations of men - Rohan and Gondor. This image can be directly applied to the real World Cold War that was in full swing when Lord of the Rings was first published with the two towers being Washington DC and Moscow, or Capitalism and Communism, or NATO and the Warsaw Pact, etc... However, this idea of subversive divide to pave the way for easier conquest and control is nothing new and a well versed scholar like JRR Tolkien was certainly well aware of this fact. To this day we have people arguing over left and right in countless forms be they social, political or even in the fields of science. The point is that it very effectively negates the objectivity and focus that unity requires and thus Gentiles remain repressed. It is a grand irony that this unfortunate condition is largely due to their own doing, but that is what makes it so hard to combat - it requires the swallowing of one's own pride (something not easily done) and realizing that you've been fooled by an illusion.
This is by an large what the puppet master Sauron is counting on, that capable Men are unable to swallow their pride and sacrifice for their neighbor with whom they have a grudge or in whom they see some arbitrary difference, be it political, social, cultural, or national - or even simply geographical. Conquest of spirit precedes conquest by sword.
The Light of Arya begins to expose to the False Dichotomy
Gandalf's Journey
A longer version of Gandalf's great fall from the broken bridge of Kazad-Dum is the opening sequence of the film. Despite already being very deep underground, Gandalf and the Balrog seem to fall into a pitch black abyss and in this sequence we see that it is actually quite deep, they fall and even fight while still falling and falling...
This could be explained by the fact that they actually weren't that deep underground, but near the foot of mountain as the surrounding landscape seems to show. However, a literal and physical explanation will come to another dead end: when Gandalf tells Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli of his fall, he says that he eventually defeated the Balrog while up on what can only be the peak of a great mountain. How did he fall so far and wind up on an alpine summit? The explanation, therefore, must be metaphysical and/or spiritual. This would also explain why Gandalf is still alive after such a strenuous feat as well as why he seems to be endowed with not just new powers, but effectively a new life - Gandalf has ascended to Arhat. The fall down to the depths of Middle Earth and the final fight up on a freezing peak is him triumphing over all levels of his natural condition - both in spirit and in body. Each member of the Fellowship is on the same kind of metaphysical journey in conjunction with their mission.
Edoras
Edoras is the main city of Rohan, which is one of two nations of Men in Middle Earth. An alliance between these nations is key for Sauron to be defeated. The Dark Lord knows this all too well and has used his puppet Saruman to forge an army of elite orcs in order to destroy Rohan. Saruman is also up to tricks of his own and has divided the leadership of Rohan and effectively made it powerless and subversively guided by him. King Theoden of Rohan is under Saruman's spell and the King's advisor Grima Wormtongue has been bought out by Saruman and thus maliciously advises the King. When Eomer, the King's own nephew, warns his uncle of the coming danger from orcs, Grima accuses Eomer of being a warmonger and has him banished from Edoras, after getting Theoden to sign an "official order." Grima Wormtongue is a very apt name for this character and as with many names in the whole work, it is no mistake.
The Parasitic Advisor with the Puppet
This image can be directly applied to real World Jewish subversion of national leaderships. The United States government is a perfect example and it doesn't take very much research to see that while the US President is (and always has) been a Gentile, the amount of Zionist Jews in the Presidential Cabinet has been ever increasing. This allows the subversive agents to be very influential with a direct link to national leadership (right at its side and whispering into its ear), while also being able to take zero responsibility for any failures of their puppet since they didn't "officially" make the decision - they merely "advised" and "suggested." This allows them to place a weak leader in order to attempt to execute a strong (and possibly even noble) plan, but the inability of the leader will be ignored upon the inevitable and calculated failure upon which it will be the plan, not the leader, that will be labeled as "ineffective." Next, very quickly, the opposite plan will be implemented, which was the scheme all along. The other possible subversive course is if a leader gets too near a controversy of some sort (often even this can be engineered as well), he can be promptly removed and a new puppet, one ready to listen or take the fall, can be then installed. The overall point is that while leadership constantly changes, the parasitic agents always remain. And the masses still wonder why change hasn't come as initially (and repeatedly) "promised."
Consider the motto of the Israeli Mossad: "Where there is no guidance, a nation falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety." The subversive factor is that these "counselors" are actually placed in foreign nations; they are the parasitic advisors who funnel an able nation's resources to the Jews. The United States gives Israel a large, yearly, and unconditonal sum of money, military equipment, and aid. This is the real World's biggest example of "guidance" and "counselors" which via secrecy and brainwashing is kept from the American public. However, there are some who are well aware of this.
Grima's mission is to ensure that division and indecision keeps Rohan in a weak and disorganized status quo with everyone hesitant about what to do and how to do it. Gandalf, now as Arhat, easily sees through this charade and quickly reveals the real nature of this corner of the chessboard. Grima, confronted with reality and unmasked, flees in shame without any of the prizes that were promised him. King Theoden is tempted to strike Grima down, but is held back by Aragorn and promptly realizes that impulsive reactions cannot be the solution to their present situation. So, King Theoden was not only freed from his mind prison and reverted back to his normal human state, but also has begun to act more nobly, thus is taking his own small, but sure, steps out of the ignobility that plagues the men of Middle Earth.
When pulling Theoden out of Saruman's spell Gandalf says a very interesting line to describe the situation, "like poison from a wound." This applies directly to the method Zionist subversion, which secretly frightens its puppets with some infliction of false flag terror and then claims to have all the remedies, which are then implemented by parasitic advisors. However, it is those elements that are the poison, the "spell," which then keeps the puppet under appropriate control. Gandalf snaps Theoden out of just such a condition.
The Noble Advisor with the Leader
Gandalf then advises King Theodon on the best course of action and this is, no surprise here, a militarist plan - the Folk of Rohan are to set aside their differences with the Folk of Gondor and meet their shared enemy in battle.
An interesting visual detail, which can be seen in the screen shot above, is that there is a Gnostic Cross in the design of the throne and it is right by the King's head when he is sitting up straight. However, when he was under Saruman's spell, Theodeon was slumped and slightly angled away from the Cross and towards the traitor Grima.
The Battle of Helm's Deep
This is an interesting development in the story since going to Helm's Deep seems to contradict Gandalf's advice of militarist action. However, due to Gandalf not really protesting the decision all that much, but in fact going along with it, the decision and motivations behind it are militarist and they certainly achieve such results.
The Battle of Helm's Deep will later be seen as a mirror of the final battle by the Black Gate of Mordor. At Helm's Deep, evil marches to confront good, while later at the Black Gate, good will go to confront evil. The overall strategy of this move is also a dynamic opposite to Sauron's strategy of divide and conquer. By hiding in the defensible position of Helm's Deep, Theoden evens out the odds of facing Saruman's great army of orcs, but also, in effect, denies cooperation between Saruman's army and Sauron's army. The move comes at a heavy cost and many lives are lost, but it seems men just can't help but using the enemies' weapons against them! Though, the weapon here was the general strategic move, a counter move to be more precise, thus Theoden did not succumb to the power of the Ring or sellout his honor in any way. The members of the Fellowship may have felt somewhat aggravated by Theoden not doing things exactly as they imagined, but they realized that Theoden is a sovereign leader and must be allowed to enact his own leadership in his own lands. The victory at Helm's Deep was a tough one to achieve, but it effectively united Rohan and destroyed a key part of the False Dichotomy set up by Sauron - Isengard's army is annihilated.
A strange, and seemingly out of place, event in the battle is when the orcs breach the fortress's outer wall with some powerful explosives, which they placed at its base in a key weak point - a drain. These bombs are set off in a suicide run by a torch bearing orc and the most frustrating part of this scene is that Legolas fails to bring him down despite launching two arrows. This is the only time Legolas misses and it's twice in a row. However, this is not so much of a plot point and an excuse to show a big explosion as it is a reflection on how the Dark Forces in the story work. The orcs' initial mass storming of the wall served as a cover to plant the bombs; Aragorn and Legolas realized too late what is going on and the mines were detonated. This progression by deception is exactly what Sauron is doing and him getting ahold of the Ring would be just like the bombs going off here - only the swarm unleashed then wouldn't even be winnable in a pyrrhic victory for the Good in Middle Earth.
The end of the battle at Helm's Deep has some interesting symbolism. Gandalf rides down a giant slope with Rohan's Cavalry and the rising Sun, the light of the Swastika, blinds the orcs/golems and they are decimated with the scattered remaining ranks fleeing into the nearby Fangorn Forest where the living trees finish them for good.
The triumphant army of Rohan, which now includes Eomer and his Riders, is set to be part of the overall Kampf against the Dark Lord Sauron.
Ents and the Battle of Isengard
The Ents are an interesting addition to the story and the third of major plot lines in The Two Towers. This plot is the one with Merry and Pippin who were kidnapped at the end of the last film and Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli set out after them. However, they met Gandalf who told of his fight with the Balrog and assured the Fellowship members that the Hobbits are safe.
Merry and Pippin escape during a fight at the orc camp, Eomer and his Riders ambushed the Uruk-Hai, and the two little Hobbits fled to the nearby wood. There they found out that the trees are not just alive... but alive and moving! These tree beings are then Ents who safeguard and care for the forest. As a metaphor, this is directly applicable to the Aryan notion of the unity of all things under the Sun, as symbolized by the Swastika or any other of the many Sun symbols, which all derive from the Aryan Swastika. In brief, the trees join the Kampf! This plotline also shows that Merry and Pippin are maturing as warriors and, in fact, are on their own respective journeys of ascent out of their natural Hobbit condition. Each one has a role in getting the Ents to rally against Saruman. Much like Men, the Ents rise up to the call of duty after being shown the destructive possibilities of the Dark Lord's plan; the Ents see that Saruman has destroyed much of their forest to fuel his industrial forges and create his army.
With this sight, the Ents see that they must spring into action and march on Isengard. The ensuing battle has more Aryan symbolism as the golem foundries fueled by artificial fires are flooded with a great river that Saruman had blocked to allow his industry to expand. This is an image of natural life overcoming the artificial - water snuffs the foundries and the Ents smash the orcs - the trees shatter the golems.
An interesting visual detail here is that the walled compound that is now at the center of Isengard, and the one that the Ents flood and destroy, has six sections as can be seen below - three diameters in a circle means it has been partitioned into six parts. Thus, a six-pointed icon that has been forcibly scorched into the face of Middle Earth is destroyed in this battle.
Divinity drowns the Demonic
The Kampf Continues
One side of the False and Forced Dichotomy has been destroyed, however, the struggle is far from over. In the ruins of the city of Osigiliath, Faramir realizes that he cannot bring the Ring to his father, Denethor, even though he is very anxious to please his father who doesn't seem to appreciate his efforts. This is a very important step and the defining moment between Boromir and Faramir - both were faced with the same choice and both chose differently and thus wound up on very different paths.
Interesting is that Osigiliath, a destroyed city, resembles the halls of Moria, which is no surprise as both fell to the same plague. Frodo and Sam left Moria in despair, but now they press on in their journey with a new found hope, which Sam describes in a monologue. "Some things are worth fighting for" - he is basically talking about Aryan ideals of civilization. Gollum also has a final monologue, with himself, and he continues his scheme of trying get his hands on the Ring. He even seems to suggest that he wants to keep it for himself and not give it Sauron, which reflects his true nature of serving only himself, which is a trait that ultimately even Sauron possesses.
Next, the Kampf will go on to its two greatest tasks - facing Sauron's Army in battle, which will require the alliance of Gondor; and the destroying of the Ring, which will require entering Mordor.
V - Events and Places
Volume III: The Return of the King
Once again, we pick up right where the previous film left off. The nation of Rohan had achieved victory in the battle at Helm's Deep, which also resulted in Saruman's army being destroyed. In story dynamics, it means that the False Dichotomy had been exposed and one side of it has been put to an end. However, Men are easy to claim victory and settle down after one hard fought battle and it will still take some convincing, a final push, to unite the two nations of Rohan and Gondor.
Frodo and Sam, with Gollum, are getting ever closer to Mordor and this is increasingly allowing for Gollum to be more cunning with his trickery.
The Fall of Saruman and Isengard
The Ents have completely destroyed Saruman's surrounding compound by flooding it with a river from the mountains. The only thing left standing is the tower, Orthanc. In the books this is explained by revealing that Orthanc is actually one great piece of unbreakable stone and the Ents were not able to bring it down. This bit seems to be only implied in the film. However, Saruman has locked himself inside and is at a loss of what to due after suffering such a defeat. Gandalf and company arrive offering Saruman peace if he only tells them what he knows of Sauron's plan. Quite predictably, evil and ego go hand in hand, thus Saruman still thinks he can cause some damage, first by insulting Theoden and by shooting a fireball at Gandalf. This proves folly as Gandalf is now an Arhat. In The Fellowship of the Ring, Saruman easily defeated Gandalf in a wizard duel, but now it is Gandalf who defeats Saruman by breaking his staff with so much as a snap of his fingers.
Grima Wormtongue, Saruman's former agent in Edoras, is here too and Theoden honorably allows Grima to redeem himself and join the forces of good. However, the selfishness of Saruman once again comes out and he scolds his servant for even considering such an option, which in turn angers Grima who jumps at Saruman with a dagger only to be shot down by Legolas, but not before he wounds Saruman who falls from the tower! Quite the quick series of events, but it shows very well how volatile the power-hungry really are, as well as where it often leads them to. The first sequence of this third film is actually an elaboration on the back story of Smeagol/Gollum and it shows how he was, still as a happy little hobbit, fishing with his friend, Deagol, who by chance found the Ring resting on the riverbed. In less than a minute, after the both of them have had a good look at the Ring, they are fighting to kill each other over it; such are the selfish, such are those divided by greed for material possession. In the end, the only winner is the force that initially tore them apart.
With Saruman's final bane the theme of falling can been seen once again. There is even a special tracking shot of Saruman's plunge, much like the previous film did with Gandalf, thus it can readily be identified as a key image and idea. Saruman's fall is also his end; he is impaled on a spoke of a wheel and pulled under water into darkness and death. The spoke wheel can be seen as a metaphorical Gnostic Cross or Sun Wheel. In Slavic mythology, the kołowrót or kolovrat (literally - "spinning wheel" and sometimes Anglicized as collowrath), is a Sun symbol and it comes from the practical tool of the wheel in a well's pulley system, which is course a farmer's tool and thus an Aryan one. The symbol is also sometimes referred to as a Slavic Swastika.
Saruman about to be destroyed by the Sun Wheel
It is this that finally puts an end to Saruman, thus making his death not just physical, but also spiritual. This is a direct opposite to Gandalf who became more physically able and spiritually stronger after his fall and battle with the Balrog. This sequence is also a pretty big deviation from the source material, but that will be covered in Part VI.
Some interesting details here are that Theoden clearly shows to not be under affected by Saruman's voice and magic anymore. This suggests that he is stronger in spirit than before. When Saruman shoots the fireball, the framing of the shot shows the flame swooping down from the top of the symmetrically framed tower, which not only mirrors the power of Sauron's fiery Eye atop Barad-Dur, but also general theme of the Eye of Zion atop the pyramid on the back of the Dollar Bill. The situation is getting dire for the elite at the top, thus they do not just send their golems out anymore, they themselves begin to lash out at those mobilized in revolution.
Return to Edoras and the Next Step
With Edoras saved and the nation of Rohan secure from immediate aggression, the Men do what Gentiles most often do in such a situation - bring out the kegs and mugs and serve ale all around! The Hobbits, of course, join in the celebration. However, Gandalf and Aragorn know that there is still much work to be done. One tower from the False Dichotomy may have fallen, but the other still remains strong. King Theoden has a typically Gentile grudge against Gondor, which he claims didn't answer his own nation's need for help, thus he doesn't have to help Gondor.
There are also new complications from the fact that Merry, being a curious, but not all that wise, Hobbit, looked into the Palanthir, which was the stone that Saruman had used to communicate with Sauron. This, effectively, gives Sauron a glimpse of what is going on in Edoras as well as make him think that Merry has the Ring of Power. Gandalf leaves with Merry for Minas Tirith, which is the main city in Gondor and that nation borders with Mordor. This will keep Sauron's gaze away from Rohan and closer to his own lands, though unfortunately it puts Gondor on the path of imminent danger.
The Great City of Minas Tirith
Minas Tirith is perhaps the grandest set piece in the entire film trilogy, as well as the location of the most spectacular battles - first the Siege of Gondor, which is almost immediately followed by the Battle of Pelennor Fields.
With its large scope and precise design, the architecture of Minas Tirith is a beacon from an Aryan imagination. The uniform stone design with not one block or corner wasted is what the greatest Roman architect or Albert Speer strived to achieve in one of their projects. Interestingly, Minas Tirith was inspired by a real location that can be visited to this day: Le Mont St-Michel in Normandy, France. This is a key to understanding the very Aryan symbolism of Minas Tirith.
Aryanism is the Real World and in Fiction
The very top of Le Mont St-Michel is an abbey, while the top of Minas Tirith is the hall of the King of Gondor. This reinforces the Aryan idea of a leader not just being a political leader, but also a spiritual leader - one with a vision and capability for achieving Greatness in his nation. "Le Mont St-Michel" literally means the "The Mount of Saint Michael," referring to the Archangel who struck down the devil with his sword. This can be directly applied to the sword that Aragorn now wields as heir to the throne of Gondor and also to the idea of an Aryan leader being both militarist and spiritual - in effect, being rendition of a warrior angel like Saint Michael. Aragorn will slowly rise to an image very much like this and in the final battle even wears a cape that can be seen as resembling angel wings. The soldiers of Gondor also have wings in the designs of their helmets, they are wrapped around either side.
As Gandalf first rides up to the King's Hall, there is a good view of the courtyard at the top of Minas Tirith, which is basically one big Gnostic Cross. The two statues here also have wings on their helmets, though these actually stick out and this just makes the warrior angel symbolism all the more apparent.
The Final Key to the Grand Alliance
The leadership of Minas Tirith has, like so many other things, been divided. Currently, it is Denethor who sits on the throne, but he is just the Steward, which is a post that perhaps can be best described as "first officer to the King." An important position, one that takes on full leadership responsibilities in the King's absence, but ultimately the Steward is not the top leader. Denethor knows this and has been corrupted by the power that he was entrusted with. Perhaps this comes at no surpise, since Denethor is father of Boromir who also fell to the power of the Ring. There is no direct indicator that Denethor is being manipulated by Sauron, but there is much that suggests that he is in fact under a spell.
First, he is acting horribly irresponsibly in his post. Even if he was a selfish leader who was only interested in saving his own skin, he wouldn't just sit around waiting for his city to be pillaged. Second, we first see him slumped in his throne grieving over the death of Boromir whose broken horn he holds. This is where the theme of duality comes into play. Denethor is effectively the mirror image of Theoden who was also under a spell in his throne. Now, there is no parasitic agent manipulating Denethor, but Grima the traitor wasn't the source of the spell on Theoden, it was Saruman, who was in the bordering territory of Isengard, up in his tower working the magic. Who do we have next to Gondor? Why, it's Sauron himself as Mordor borders with Gondor. Surely, Sauron is a much more powerful spell-maker than Saruman, thus doesn't need a petty agent nudging his puppet along. He can just put his target into an irrational state of grievance, stirred from the death of a son, and thus have him be an impotent leader for just long enough as an army of orcs marches over from Mordor. The maddened Denethor even refuses to call for aid from Rohan and he is even more stubborn about Gondor-Rohan relations than Theoden was seen to be. Thus, Gandalf must step into action - he has Merry light the beacons signaling Rohan for help and then he himself rallies the soldiers of Gondor right after Denethor had lost his mind and ordered a pointless retreat. The weak and overcome Denethor eventually goes mad and tries to burn his one living son alive, but ends up burning himself and falling (another key fall in the storyline) from the top of his own city.
Theoden, who has shown to be tougher in spirit, rises to the call of duty and answers the message from the beacons. Thus, the much needed alliance is finally settled, but Rohan needs to muster enough military power to smite Mordor's forces. After two days of calling all able men to arms, Theoden and company know that they do not have nearly as much soldiers as they hoped, but they ride into battle anyway. In doing so, they effectively ensure that what Sauron fears most, men uniting with one common purpose, not only happens, but those men then ride battle ready right up to Sauron's doorstep to put an end to all of his deception.
The Importance of the Oath
While Rohan's army rides on into battle with militarist perseverance, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli, have gone into the depths of an old mountain. They are looking for an old army, long since dead, but cursed and trapped in stone for abandoning their former master Isildur in battle. As Isildur's heir, and now with his ancestor's sword, Aragorn ihas the chance to get these ghosts to fight, which will provide a winning chance for the Alliance, as well as allowing old tortured souls finally be at peace.
The Army of Dead has some interesting symbolism around it. In effect, they are living beings forced into stone. The mountain that they inhabit is said to be "evil" and has this particular aura around it, not a visible one, but one in the metaphysical sense. It is no ordinary mountain and for all intents and purposes, it should not be this way. This idea of having a life force trapped in stone is representative of the golem theme that we have with the orcs. The orcs are artificial beings forced into a certain existence, which is a condition akin to the men trapped in the stone mountain. The key difference is that the golems have been made by evil to serve evil, while the men were formerly good and have been punished for a great misdeed - reduced down to an artificial state of being until they fulfill their oath.
In essence, Aragorn asks the Army of Dead:
"Is Your Honor Loyalty?"
Their rising up to the call of duty, which results in them being free from their torment in death, is also what Boromir went through, albeit over the course of minutes not millennia! Like the Army of Dead, Boromir gave his word to fulfill a task, but was overcome by the Ring and effectively abandoned his duty. However, he realized this an snapped out of the spell and saved Merry and Pippin in battle, but received mortal wounds in doing so. However, he passed on in honor. The Army of Dead, too abandoned their duty long ago, but now snap out of their spell, leave the confinement of stone (un-become golems by their own will), and go to fight for their former master's heir. The theme here is a return to honor and it can also be seen in the line of Denethor (father), Boromir (first son), and Faramir (younger son) - Denethor succumbed to madness from being under spell and died in shame; Boromir fell under a spell, but snapped out of it, and died with honor; Faramir was tempted, but never succumbed, and goes on to live in honor.
So as we can see, the Kampf to overcome the spell of Sauron is also a whole lot of inner-revolutions by individuals as well as the Grand Alliance of Nations and Folk against him. Each member, down to the individual soldier, faces his own inner battle with spirit, in many instances even when already wielding a sword against Sauron. For many may fight, but only the Noble, the Aryans, fight by motivations from a profound spiritual insight as to what they're doing and why - that is the essence of Kampf.
The Trek into Mordor
Frodo and Sam, with Gollum, who have steadily been making their way to Mordor, have finally reached that feared place. Much like with the others facing their toughest challenge, they now face theirs. Climbing up a hidden set of stairs as indicated by Gollum, they are nearing a way past the massive mountain walls of Mordor - a certain tunnel and Gollum seems to have some particular plans brewing with this place. Gollum has been slyly working to get Frodo to resent Sam and to making Frodo suspect that his friend is trying to betray him. This takes its final step during a rest along the steps during which Gollum sets up a situation to make it look like Sam has been stealing bread. Sam, who Gollum knows is frustrated with him, lashes out at Gollum who plays the pathetic, innocent victim. The ruse, of which this is the last step, finally works - Frodo tells Sam to leave on the pretense that the trip is taking its toll on him and that he is hindering progress.
Frodo is, of course, thoroughly convinced that he did the right thing and this is because he did it from his own will - this is the key to Judaic manipulation. It is not the manipulating of the pawns to get them to move where the puppet master wants, it is the manipulating of the playing field so that he pawns move by their own will where the puppet master wants, thus giving the illusion of free choice. The Zionist chessboard isn't literal, it's metaphorical - it is more like The Matrix or the alien infestation in They Live. Due to his madness which was accentuated by the loss of his son, Denethor was absolutely convinced that he was doing the right thing. As was Isildur when he tried to control the Ring. The spell was on their minds. Gollum has just orchestrated such a situation with Frodo and Sam and tore two friends apart - the unimportant one is out of the way, while the one with the Ring is walking into a trap. There is no need to snatch the Ring, there is just the need to get Frodo to drop it.
Sam had had been honest throughout the entire journey and soon sees proof of the ploy that had been played; he promptly rushes back up to help his friend. Frodo on the other hand sees that the tunnel is not just any old tunnel, but actually a lair of a giant spider-beast, Shelob. He just barely makes it out of there when Gollum reappears and now just flat out tries to take the Ring in angry frustration that his plan of having Frodo eaten by Shelob didn't work. Frodo has taken a heavy toll mentally and physically and still doesn't fully see what Gollum is doing, or starts to pity him once again after another pathetic "victim" excuse. However, when Gollum leaps at him again, Frodo manages to roll him off of a cliff... this is actually a bit of luck and Frodo's full commitment to destroying the Ring is still to be tested.
Shelob comes out of her lair and sneaks up Frodo stinging him as he looks where to go. Luckliy, Sam shows up and fights the beast off with Frodo's sword, but also with the vial of light, the Light of the Star Elendil. The theme of light is present throughout the whole storyline and all golems in the Lord of the Rings despise natural light, but especially sunlight. It is no surpirse that the Swastika, a Sun symbol, is looked at with disgust by Zionist pests.
Frodo is not dead after being stung, but rather just completely limp for a few hours, as Sam overhears some orcs talking, but they take Frodo to their fortress, Cirith Ungol. Sam has much of his work cut out for him, as the garrison at the fort begins to fight after an argument breaks out over Frodo's shiny armor. This would have been a pretty lame plot device, since it makes Sam's rescue of Frodo much easier, but as we have seen: orcs are very volatile in temper and spiritually weak beings succumb to materialism quicker. Thus, it is no surprise that something so small sets some orcs off in a brawl, and no surpise that the whole garrison joins in.
Thematically, this is also very consistent. The essence of Sauron's power, symbolic of usury based power, is highly unstable and demands constant manipulations to keep afloat. Also, the orcs/golems are the dynamic opposite of the members that set out on the Kampf against Sauron. Thus, the golems fight without purpose or for whatever little reason they feel like fighting over in a brawl of disunity - while the Noble Warriors on the Kampf fight for a very specific purpose and are united because of it.
The Final Tasks
Theoden's Riders arrived and helped break the siege at Minas Tirith, while Aragorn showed up shortly thereafter with his Army of Dead and helped take down the Men of the South and the Corsairs, allies of Sauron. Interestingly, those particular groups were said to be mercenaries, or soldiers for hire, and thus another version that stands opposite of the Noble Warriors. That makes for three types of motivation to be found in the groups on the battlefield - Noble Warriors motivated by Kampf; Mercenaries driven by promise of gold; and Orcs, brainless golems just doing what they're told - the "anti-purpose."
After defeating all in the battlefield the next decision is the key Final Task for the Alliance of Middle Earth Folk - to meet Sauron's remaining forces by the Black Gate so that Mordor is empty and Frodo can destroy the Ring in Mount Doom. They set out from Minas Tirith.
The success now depends on Frodo who must accomplish his Final Task - destroying the Ring. Note that the final changes that take place physically are in conjunction with changes that take place metaphysically. Gimli who had been stubborn about allying with Men and Elves, went on to accept this, but still poked fun at the fact, as did Legolas. In the Battle of Pelennor Fields, as in Helm's Deep, they were competing to see who can kill the most orcs and Gimli would say "may the best Dwarf win!" Then he got jealous that Legolas managed to take down an entire War Oliphant, complete with crew, single-handedly. As they stand by the Black Gate and watch a massive orc army pour out, Gimli makes yet another remark in the same vein, but Legolas quickly responds and a profound realization sets in.
Gimli: "Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with an Elf."
Legolas: "What about side by side with a friend?"
Gimli: "Aye. I could do that."
That is the essence of camaraderie, which all warriors in a Kampf must come to realize, and in Lord of the Rings, they do. They form a diverse army, comprised of members from every Folk in Middle Earth, to smite their common enemy who has been ever manipulating and causing turmoil for everyone. This multi-ethnic alliance, to many peoples’ surprise, actually has precedent in the real World - that would be the real-life military unit that was as ethnically diverse as a World Map - The Waffen SS.
SS Mittelerde - Dwarf, Human, Elf, Wizard
and Hobbit (the helmet by Gandalf... lol)
Meanwhile...
Frodo approaches Mount Doom and stands at the edge of the grand foundry where the Ring was made. Gollum had reappeared just before he and Sam went in, but Sam managed to hold him off to allow Frodo time to toss the Ring in. However, this final moment, the Final Task, is one of will. Just like for Aragorn and the Alliance of Middle Earth, the hard part was not marching up to the gate and drawing swords, it was getting themselves to do it and then standing ground as they see the orcs pour out. Likewise, for Frodo, a simple toss is not the hard part, but the building up the will to make the toss. It is breaking out of the mind prison set up by Sauron, to any wearer the Ring appears as the most “precious” thing in existence, just like facing Sauron’s army appears as the most hopeless thing in existence - it is all part of Sauron’s spell to ensure his preservation - it is the engineering of the playing field to get pawns to go where he wants them to be and do what he demands of them. And so Frodo... puts on the Ring... immediately Sauron senses this and sends the Nazgul after him.
Gollum, long since completely overcome by his lust for the Ring, will never stop in trying to get it and attacks Frodo, after seeing his footprints, and bites of his finger, which finally puts him in possession of “the Precious.” The next scene is key since it shows that Frodo finally stands up to the task and overcomes Sauron's illusion. Just outside of Shelob’s lair, he had a bit of luck with rolling Gollum off of a cliff, but here actually does it intentionally and Gollum plunges down into the molten rock. Note the shot - it is tracking shot of not just a character falling, but also of the Ring. There is one more key fall, the final one, and it occurs right after the Ring lands in the volcanic river.
The floating Ring is soon consumed by the molten flow, it is pulled under the surface of Middle Earth never to return; this causes the tower of Barad-Dur to crumble and the Eye of Sauron to topple from its peak and burst, rifting the earth in a great shockwave and pulling down all of the parasitic creations deep into the bowels of Baphomet’s Hell.
Frodo and Sam manage to escape the erupting Mount Doom, but get stranded on the slope as lava streams surround them. It all seems hopeless, but then Gandalf shows up with a flight of eagles and both Frodo and Sam are taken by an eagle in its mighty, yet in this case also gentle, talon. It is certainly an interesting image and it is no coincidence that it bears striking compositional resemblance to the Luftwaffe insignia that can be seen in this blog's banner - the eagle is holding the source of salvation which has brought about a New Order.
The New Age and The New Order
A New Age of Unity and Nobility then settles peacefully onto Middle Earth. Aragorn’s final monologue at his coronation on the Gnostic Cross Courtyard of Minas Tirith effectively says: “Let there be Unity through Nobility.” The original Fellowship is still together in friendship and lasting mutual respect. The lands of Men can be seen as soon to be fully united as Faramir and Eowyn - a Son of Gondor and a Daughter of Rohan - have taken romantic interest in one another.
In The Two Towers there is a brief scene where Aragorn’s ancestry is mentioned, and the nation that he belonged to, as well as its dispersal, which reflects what happened to the Aryans in our real World - scattered with the occasional rising up throughout history. However, in this highly romanticized tale, the Aryan doesn’t just rise up and accomplish some feat, he actually ensures the setting up of a kingdom founded on Aryan ideals. This is made all the more clear with the arrival of Arwen right after Aragorn’s coronation. She is an immortal Elf, but chooses a mortal life with purpose, over an immortal life that’s empty. By staying in Middle Earth and taking Aragorn’s hand, she also effectively ensures that the new King will have an heir, thus she is actually playing a very key (though totally off screen!) role in the well-being of the nation of Gondor.
There is still some ground to cover with Lord of the Rings and that will be wrapped up in the concluding chapter.
VI - Conclusion
After Aragorn's coronation as the new King of Gondor, the goals of the Kampf that the Fellowship set out on, have finally been accomplished. There is a spiritual progression throughout all of Middle Earth, but especially in the members of the Fellowship. Gandalf had ascended to Arhat much earlier, but now Frodo and Aragorn effectively join him. Also, given his ancestry, Aragorn taking his rightful (and dutiful) place on the throne at Minas Tirith is effectively the first major step in the reemergence of the Aryan civilization. However, since all key Aryan traits are not ethnic specific, the new standard of nobility that is now in place throughout Middle Earth is the real meaningful reemergence of Aryanism. One Aryan leader wouldn't mean much without a noble folk supporting him.
The Hobbits return to their Shire and most of the residents here are completely unaware just how monumental the past thirteen months have been. With their noble character, Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin expect no thanks, they just know that what they did was right and that's enough. This change of character can be seen as they share a pint of ale in their favorite tavern, the Green Dragon. They just sit in silence, with a sigh of relief, do a "cheers" and take a few relaxing sips of the ale that they haven't had for over a year. Note that in the background, the other Hobbits behave like, well, like Hobbits; they're rowdy and inebriated, but they do mean well, though only in a humanist (or maybe hobbitist?) sense. Our four little friends, however, have become conscious of Arya and Universalism. It also gives Sam that extra bit of confidence he needs to finally profess his love for Rosie, the alewife at the tavern.
The Scouring of the Shire
There is a very large deviation from the source material in this concluding series of scenes. In general, everything ends up in the films as it does in the books, but one key episode was omitted from the film version: the chapter entitled "The Scouring of the Shire."
This chapter begins right when Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin are returning to the lands of their Hobbit kin, but soon realize that something is very wrong. In short, the Shire has been over-run by thugs and also has been turned into crude industrial complex. To our heroes' surprise, it is all the work of Saruman along with his servant, Grima. In fact, what has been done in the Shire seems to mirror what happened at Isengard with the massive golem foundry for making orcs.
With this key episode Tolkien has effectively illustrated the arid hate and parasitic persistence that drives the Jewish subversion of nations and cultures; if one place doesn't work out, flee and hide for while until another opportunity is ready to be exploited. The forcing of destructive industrialization represents Tolkien's own fears from what he saw happen to the English countryside as many nations and economies started to get more and more mechanized. However, the well versed Tolkien must have also known about such things going on in the USSR and this is where the "rule by terror" notion seen in the story can be applied. It is a well known fact that at least 75% of all Soviet Commissars were atheistic Jews and they hated priests, yet held rabbis in high esteem, which of course, makes it plain that they just announced themselves as atheists, but secretly continued to practice Judaism. This also makes plain as to why the Soviet regime destroyed churches, but left synagogues standing. Saruman's actions in the Shire here are basically a line by line account of Bolshevik terror, but guised in story and metaphor.
Despite this different chapter in the book, Saruman's fate is very similar in both book and film. In both instances, Grima jumps up at him with a knife, but is then cut down by some well aimed archery. Though, in the book it is the Hobbits that fire the arrows. This also brings us to a key factor of message subversion. The movie shows the Hobbits living a peaceful life and not worrying about anything - all the important events take place elsewhere. Most people living today are in a situation analogous to Hobbit life - there is work, family, and job with the great big World beyond this immediate sphere and it is primarily seen through the media. Thus, the film's message is "don't worry, someone capable will fix all those horrible things you hear about." There is no doubt that Tolkien was well aware of the dangerous folly of such thinking and thus made it clear that ALL nations and folks must be ready to stand up and fight - even happy little Hobbits.
This review of the film The Dark Knight also examines the idea of ordinary people needing to unite to solve the plagues of their nation. Note the last section on the character, Brian.
Saruman's death in the film has metaphysical metaphors as we identified in Part V - he gets impaled on a symbolic Aryan Sun Wheel - while in the book he is driven out by Hobbit militarism with his death being a little more pitiful - he dies from the volatility of the situation that he is ultimately responsible for getting himself into. These two endings may take a different route, but wind up at the same meaning. The spoke wheel from the film could also be a link to Buddhism, which is an ideology that thoroughly rejects nefarious Talmudic materialism.
Saruman's Final Bane
Some Other Matters
Galadriel's Ring, which only shows up in one brief scene, can be seen to have six-points as the Judaic hexagram. However, Galadriel's ring is a flower, not a star, and on close examination you can see that the petals are "swooshed" to give it a spinning, or even Sun Wheel, appearance. The connection between Flower and Sun furthers this idea, thus the Rings that the Elves made to get knowledge about Middle Earth are shown as flowers to mean something along the lines of "blooming knowledge" from the Sun Wheel - the Swastika. Also, Galadriel's Ring is silver, while Sauron's Ring is gold. There is no doubt that a currency and monetary theme is at play here. Here some some interesting articles on the Aryan qualities of silver.
Perhaps the design choice of six petals was meant to appease Hollywood Jews, who just smelled a ton of money from the potential box-office success of an adaptation of such a popular book, but they didn't bother to look deeper and see that all the film's coherent symbolism and themes are actually Aryan!
Even the idea of the Elves "going West" has been inverted from its apparent Judaic/Masonic meaning. This was, of course, done by Tolkien long before the movie was made. In Freemasonry, when someone dies they are said to "go West." Tolkien ridiculed this idea by having immortal Elves go West! He flipped the Masonic idea on its head and probably had a good laugh about it. In the film version the last shot of the boat "going West" and into the Sun suggests that the departing Arhats are becoming one with Arya. It also looks a lot like a Viking funeral rite, in which the body was placed on a boat that was then lit as a funeral pyre and cast out towards the setting Sun. So, there are many interlocking metaphors here (as well as the satire) and they all tie in with Aryanism.
Passing into the Infinity of Arya
The one problematic thing seems to be that the one literal pyre that appears in the film is linked with Denethor's madness. Also, the dead at Rohan are buried in mounds. However, since the film takes place in the Third Age, before the Return of the King and Aryan Nobility, this can explain the lack of Aryanism in the lifestyles of much of the established nations.
Lastly, there is the idea of racial interpretation. The Gnostic Cross, which makes key appearances in the Hall of the King in Rohan and in the Royal Courtyard in Minas Tirith, is often used by White Nationalists. This can be seen on the main page of websites like "Stormfront" among others. This interpretation can be further solidified by the fact that all the good human characters appear to be Ethnic Europeans, while the bad humans are "The Men of the South" who can be seen as Moors or Arabs or even as Africans. Despite this, the racial interpretation is totally false. First off, the Corsairs who are mercenaries hired by Sauron, are shown to have many Whites among them, if not mostly Whites. Second, the orcs, who can occasionally be heard to speak English, have accents that can be heard around the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Thus, if race is applied to them, they'd could very well be White, though not necessarily due to the diverse population of those nations. The point is that this kind of interpretation of supposed racial supremacy falls flat on its face and cannot be made coherent through the whole story. Tolkien himself said that allegory was never his intention, but applicability. The only aspects that are coherent enough to be applied to our World are not racial, but folkist. Tolkien was advocating the unification of groups of folk. Note that this is precisely where he ends the core plot of his tale - when the various folk have united within their own nation, which then went on with noble relations with their neighboring folk, and this caused the defeat of their common enemy.
Also, as far as the Gnostic Cross goes, it should be noted that many non-racists, but racialists (a.k.a. folkists), use that symbol in their imagery and it is they who have an accurate understanding of its universalist symbolism.
Final Thoughts
The Aryan elements far outweigh the un-Aryan in The Lord of the Rings films. Even those un-Aryan elements that were introduced as part of the screen adaptation's production were nowhere near powerful enough to subvert Tolkien's themes. I have reviewed many films here, but this trilogy is, without a doubt, vital to authentic Aryanist revolution. Most of the other films that I have looked at only enjoy notice from small, but devoted, fan bases. The Lord of the Rings, however, is known and available worldwide in both its original literary version and in this very faithful film adaptation, which makes it one of the strongest elements that we have active on The Storytelling Front.
