I don�t agree with all of it, but Victor Davis Hanson has a cool column today on the �Ents of Europe� and the War on Terror. J.R.R. Tolkien probably would have hated it, once writing that �The Lord of the Rings� was �neither allegorical nor topical.� As these things go though, Hanson�s analogy strikes me as pretty apt.
Hopefully, for all of us, the final outcome will be similar.
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So does that make Jaque Chirak or Michael Moore into Grima Wormtongue?
Tolkein’s stories were fables, not allegories. While that means he had no particular political objective, a good fable speaks to deep human truths, and thus is adaptable to any number of political arguments.