Thursday 7 April 2011

Anarcho-Monarchism in The War of the Ring

I have always maintained that John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was a man of great and visionary mind as well as honorable and chivalrous disposition. A rare breed in today's times of leftist propaganda. I remember a few weeks ago I spoke about the concept of Honor with a few friends at a debate club. What I got as an answer was a chuckle and snickering remark that in today's world there is no such thing as honor. And indeed this is true. Honor has become something antiquated - something to be laughed at and mocked. This is the result of leftist propaganda which we have been subjected to for decades if not centuries...
But back to Mr. Tolkien. He accurately described what I would consider a war of Anarcho-Monarchists against Socialist-Statists.
There is no doubt in my mind that Sauron, the Dark Lord, is the abuser of power. He is a socialist. His armies are his mere slaves. In fact, the greater his warriors and generals are, the more slavish they are in their nature. Note: The Nazgul (Ring-wraiths) are his greatest lieutenants and yet they are mere shadows of men bound to his will. He gives them power, but they can only use it to serve him, to obey his every command. Sauron rules by fear. His soldiers are afraid of battle with his enemies, but they are more afraid of him and therefore must obey. This is statism at its worst. The state has only one weapon - fear. It punishes as opposed to the capitalist free market, which rewards. It is the stick, not the carrot.
And what about the other side? These are the men who serve their lords freely. They are fighting for bonds of kinship and friendship. They are honorbound. Theoden, Aragorn, Gandalf - these are not tyrants who rule. They are Kings who lead. They inspire their men, not threaten them.
This is what I call Anarcho-Monarchism. A system of allodial property rights and voluntary feudal relationships. It does not do what leftists want, it does not support equality, egalitarianism, or destroy hierarchy. If the left want equality, what could be more equal than the slaves of Sauron, writhing together in the dirt under his feet? And make no mistake, Sauron need not be a man. He is the personification of collective power, of abuse, of force and mutual aggression.

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the 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.

Currently the Dark Lord resides on his throne in the White House. Sad truth.

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