Re-reading the Lord of the Rings, Chapter 43
I can't help it, it really feels like Tolkien enjoys to portray the bad guys to be more up to what's going on than the good guys, after all there're no perceptions that'd need to sheltered there.
Yet Orcs are silly when it comes to torturing, as silly as a dog jumping for a sausage dangling above its head.
How to set a trap for a psychopath?
The ultimate trap for a coward is to suggest to him that he'd be safe, if he was only small enough, as Loge teaches Alberich in the other Ring. And the ultimate trap for a psychopath? Hand over control and torture some? Look at this nice toy we brought you and there is more where that came from.
Actually, that kind of explains why Saruman is still interested in the Shire, now that I come to think of it, perhaps he hopes to become the Al Capone of Middle-earth dealing in Hobbits. After all, he would not have been the only one, who ever thought that trading innocence against peace is a worthy deal, much like when Sam's innocence would have almost moved even Sméagol's heart.
Only, of course, that Saruman's thought couldn't possibly be that in Tolkien's world, no matter how well it fits the wise (John and others) to think that way, no, at the most he gained influence beyond the design of Sauron's hierarchy, pretty much like Al Capone did beyond the design of U.S.-Law.
Sam's thoughts on suicide are interesting. He seems to equate his existence with its effects. I would state that there is more than that, yet Tolkien clothes this more in the clothes of the wraith-world, which are not particularly appealing. Weird stuff is happening, Elves talk through Frodo and Sam, yet the concept of God, from whom the Valar and everything below them spring, is beyond the reach of the races of Middle-earth, they live in an encorporated strife between light and dark inclinations and the light ones are, as far as Hobbits are concerned, worldly. Sam has nothing to hold him. He jerks from one convulsive conviction to another.
But what is Tolkien doing on the uppermost level? Is he not using these imaginery Hobbits as innocent tender to bargain for peace? But in the defence against whom does he spill their blood?
There is only one senseful answer to that: He's spilling their blood against presumptiveness, that is the presumption of never before reached human greatness that makes all considerations for basic things unfit occupation. He, who sets out on this path, should consider the fate he thus wreaks upon the poor Hobbits. And who is he? Isn't there a Hobbit lurking deep inside him as well?
Yet Orcs are silly when it comes to torturing, as silly as a dog jumping for a sausage dangling above its head.
How to set a trap for a psychopath?
The ultimate trap for a coward is to suggest to him that he'd be safe, if he was only small enough, as Loge teaches Alberich in the other Ring. And the ultimate trap for a psychopath? Hand over control and torture some? Look at this nice toy we brought you and there is more where that came from.
Actually, that kind of explains why Saruman is still interested in the Shire, now that I come to think of it, perhaps he hopes to become the Al Capone of Middle-earth dealing in Hobbits. After all, he would not have been the only one, who ever thought that trading innocence against peace is a worthy deal, much like when Sam's innocence would have almost moved even Sméagol's heart.
Only, of course, that Saruman's thought couldn't possibly be that in Tolkien's world, no matter how well it fits the wise (John and others) to think that way, no, at the most he gained influence beyond the design of Sauron's hierarchy, pretty much like Al Capone did beyond the design of U.S.-Law.
Sam's thoughts on suicide are interesting. He seems to equate his existence with its effects. I would state that there is more than that, yet Tolkien clothes this more in the clothes of the wraith-world, which are not particularly appealing. Weird stuff is happening, Elves talk through Frodo and Sam, yet the concept of God, from whom the Valar and everything below them spring, is beyond the reach of the races of Middle-earth, they live in an encorporated strife between light and dark inclinations and the light ones are, as far as Hobbits are concerned, worldly. Sam has nothing to hold him. He jerks from one convulsive conviction to another.
But what is Tolkien doing on the uppermost level? Is he not using these imaginery Hobbits as innocent tender to bargain for peace? But in the defence against whom does he spill their blood?
There is only one senseful answer to that: He's spilling their blood against presumptiveness, that is the presumption of never before reached human greatness that makes all considerations for basic things unfit occupation. He, who sets out on this path, should consider the fate he thus wreaks upon the poor Hobbits. And who is he? Isn't there a Hobbit lurking deep inside him as well?
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