Bad And Good Tolkien Analogies

Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum :

"As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else," Santorum told the Bucks County Courier Times. "It's being drawn to Iraq and it's not being drawn to the U.S. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the Eye to come back here to the United States."

It's a very, very inspired reading of Tolkien by Santorum (an anagram, a Salon staffer eerily points out, for "Mt. Sauron"!).

Remember, the hobbits were in Mordor to destroy the evil, corrupting Ring of Power ("One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them." ). Much better to place Sauron in Washington, D.C., with the Eye of Sauron drawn to Iraq, and not back to the U.S., where lefty blogging hobbits are working in the current election campaign....

Courtesy of Gabe, here is a conservatively-oriented, but nevertheless highly-amusing, satire of Micheal Moore's "Fahrenheit 911", called "Fellowship 911", featuring lots of JRR Tolkien references....