Sauron is Right Wing
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It's an extremely reductionist way of thinking of LoR when you take out the vital bit of context about the author of it:
He fought in the Battle of Somme during WW1 in 1916
If you read any of the accounts of that battle or the art depicting it, you know that place was literal hell on earth. Once verdant fields and wildland stripped bare, reduced to mud fused with blood, chemicals, bodies and shrapnel. Screams of men dying in different ways from bleeding out to gas attacks.
You see that in how Mordor is depicted compared to the rest of middle-earth to see the real influences was that hell hold than any modern day political bullshit.
He denied it several times, but then admitted it probably did effect his writing, just not directly. He wrote Luthien while recovering from the battle.
Other then putting left-wing wizards, what makes it right-wing?
3'd panel is the same as saying hobbits rejected multiculturalism being forced on them.
It’s literally a pathetic attempt at comparing Sauron to trump…
also not subtle having Sauron's pupil in the shape of a cross, gotta hammer in the "muh Christofascists" narrative
in the movie it looks like a cats eye, theres no horizontal line near the top of it making it resemble a cross
I'd argue 'wizard led movements to preserve the cultures of Rohan, Gondor, and the Shire in the face of mass Orcish immigration' sounds pretty damn right wing. I'll point to the memetic structure of Orcposting to prove it. The left, as proponents of immigration, map onto the dark lord. That's why this comic is backwards-- like so much of what the left produces, it's projection.
Sauron bad
Right wing bad
Therefore Sauron right wing
The logic is impenetrable.
This is about the level of thought that gets put into it
Its like when they compare Thanos to right wingers, even though Thanos' entire philosophy is based on preserving the environment through population control.
The concept of having and abusing power is only a right wing idea, and any left wingers that do it aren't really true leftists anyways.
Its always amusing seeing the lack of self awareness from the left whenever they try to LARP like they're still the anti establishment side by appropriating metaphors from older media that apply way more to them.
I'm reminded of when a bunch of them bought 1984 right when Trump got elected, and throughout his entire first term we saw them unleash some of the most draconian censorship policies across the internet for what they perceived as the greater good to "stop hate".
Stopping evil by being evil is such a trick, and yet it works every time.
in this case they're just expanding evil by giving more power to institutions
Funny thing is, you could change the second panel - where he calls out leftwing enemies - and, poof, he's a leftist. Everything fits both sides; made mistakes but claimed it made a positive change? Lefties do this all the time. Blame their opponents? Yup, but they would have been "far-right Nazis." The third one is the funniest; who goes around sticking the government's nose in every aspect of life, fucks up civilization, and then blames everyone else? Yeah.
That said, this is stupid. My point isn't that Sauron is leftwing, it's that this comic is just a stupid smear against the Big Bad Evil Rightwing, when it doesn't fit. This is just the Literally
HitlerSauron meme.You're wrong in claiming leftoids make mistakes. They lie about what their goals are, because they have to. The end result is virtually always what they wanted to begin with. They aren't "misguided, but well meaning" or any tripe like that, they're evil.
This is just them being their usual guileless parasites devoid of creative talent.
Orcposting was too popular and funny, so as usual a lefty tried to steal the idea and just turned it into an unfunny "no u" joke.
Words: The Memening
Too many words. Attributes left-wing ideology to right-wing ideology. Tries to compare a literary-made-movie villain to Trump.
It's a lefty meme alright.
Sauron is an aggressively industrializing, totalitarian leader who brooks no dissent from his horde of entirely disposable & interchangeable minions, and whose goal is to conquer all Middle-earth so that he might subordinate its peoples to his 'better' vision where (his) order and rationality (as he defines it) reign supreme. The Free Peoples meanwhile are a coalition whose members seek to maintain their independent kingdoms and traditions (in fact Aragorn's entire character arc centers around the restoration of the kingship over the Dunedain).
This is utterly ass-backwards, while Tolkien personally disdained allegory (especially when done this hamhandedly), if one must be drawn at all then it's pretty damn obvious that Sauron is a left-wing tyrant. The emphasis on industrialism and totalitarianism might be more akin to 19th-20th century leftism, but the core drive of centralism goes all the way back to the French Revolution, with the revolutionary regime starting the French Republics' various efforts to annihilate the regional autonomy & languages of regions like Brittany & Occitania. (Meanwhile the arch-traditionalist and integralist right, as exemplified by the likes of Action Francaise, supported the regions and in AF's case was led by a proud Occitan, Charles Maurras.)
Very true. I suggest people watch this video on Sauron, this whole channel has great Tolkien content and I highly recommend it.