Tolkíenism Saturday Post
The Palantir is here
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It was the palantir, a communication and seeing stone, that was used to ensnare Saruman. Saruman who was considered the leader of the Good Peoples, was captured and no one knew it as he went on pretending his role as ally and leader. A victim of his own pride the stone gave Sauron, who controlled the chief stone, the ability to capture the opposition leader. And then the Leader of the side that would eventually require the secret formation of a Fellowship to conduct a one way suicide mission to destroy The Ring, raised an army of corruption (Orcs) to loot, burn, and destroy his own side.
Tolkíen was brilliant in analyzing that evil will make offers to your own leadership who will gladly sell you out while still mouthing the words you want to hear. “Alliance and peace” lies when really they are plotting dark forces being built up in secret.
Have you heard about the new the new AI they’ve developed. Here are there words “LEARN HOW PALANTIR EDGE AI LETS YOU UNDERSTAND, DECIDE, AND ACT—IN ANY ENVIRONMENT, ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.”
Read the white paper here
They love to tell you the game. They bank on the collective stupidity of the general masses. They love the joke on us.
And our leaders, even now among them, who is the Sauron they are doing the will of in secret even as they mouth pretty words to us.
That is why Tolkíen spoke of the need for The Men of the West to rise, and not their leaders. He knew those weak and petty self serving politicians, crippled by pride and ego, would in the end be little more than servants of the Dark Lord.
He knew you would need to go on without them. And that a one true King would be provided.
People of the West rise… the hour is getting late.
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Saruman became the head of the White Council (though Galadriel, being very wise or very foresighted, favored Gandalf). Tom Shippey*, in his magnificent J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, points out Saruman's way of speaking -- particularly the way he attempts to persuade Gandalf before imprisoning him in The Fellowship of the Ring -- is among the most "modern" (meaning 20th Century) dialogue in the book. In fact, it's a particular dialect of 20th Century politician Weaselspeak.
Tolkien was a philologist, so there's no chance at all this was a coincidence.
*I give Shippey's book my highest possible recommendation and then some. Rangers should Ranger -- twice, if they have to -- to get their mitts on a copy. The title is chosen deliberately, and Shippey explains why at the beginning. Note also that Shippey was the consultant who apparently "exited" the Amazon Prime production of LOTR. Make of that what you will.