Lord of the Rings as Political Commentary

[NewHampster]

The parts our leaders played or will be playing this fall. with forgiveness asked of the characters I left out.

Sauron - Bush
Saruman - Karl Rove
Gollum - Ralph Nader
Wormtongue - Bill O'Reilly
Lord of the Nazgûl - Dick Cheney

Aragorn - John Kerry
Frodo - Howard Dean
Sam - Joe Trippi
Gandalf - Jeanne Shaheen
Galadriel - Mary Beth Cahill
Elrond - Bill Clinton
Eowyn - Hillary Clinton
Arwen - Teresa Heinz
Legolas - John Edwards
Gimli - Kucinich
King Theoden - Al Sharpton

And lest we forget.
Jimmy Carter as Bilbo
Terry McAuliffe as Treebeard
and Al Gore as Denethor the unfulfilled Steward of Gondor

[JaySherman]

1. The lyrics to the last two songs on the Fellowship st

"In Dreams," and "May it Be" fit what's happening now so much it's scary. I get chills every time I listen to them.

[MAlibdem]

2. Sounds like a good army (on the light side)

Now if we can get these ppl actually working together, we'll have no problems

[pacifictiger]

3. Great!

But I would put Richard Perle as Saruman and Rove as wormtongue. Chaney as Sauron and bush as Gollum. Wolfowitz is Lord of the Nazgûl.