As many of you already know, Palantir is an AI surveillance company, and in the Legendarium (the term for every piece of LOTR lore, including Unfinished Tales, the Silmarillion and more) the Palantir are magical stones made by the Elves that both allow people who wield them to communicate with one another, mostly used to manipulate and decieve the viewer, but there's more companies that I didn't know existed until looking various terms up as a result.
Anduril (Flame of the West in Elvish/Sindarin) is the reforged sword given to Aragorn, made from the shards of Narsil (in the books, it's reforged before the Council of Elrond and Aragorn carries it with him the entire time, as book Aragorn has essentially already gone through his character arc and just wants to be king, while Jackson's Aragorn receives Anduril as a gift from Elrond during the Ride to Gondor, in order to show the Army of the Dead that he is Isildur's heir and gain their service. The Thiel company is a drone company.
The Valar are the first of the beings created by the Abrahamic God of the Legendarium, Eru Iluvatar, effectively demigods, and the Thiel company is a VC investment firm.
Mithril is a metal lighter than silk and stronger than steel mined by the dwarves, which most notably in the trilogy is given to Frodo before leaving the Council of Elrond and saves him from getting stabbed several times, and while this isn't the last company (it's another VC investment firm), it's just really weird seeing someone intentionally take these terms and pervert them for his own purposes, as if he's trying to supplant Tolkien and have those terms remembered for how he uses them.
The jew is driven to subvert, much like the rat is driven to collect scraps in the walls of an old house. It doesnt understand why it is doing it, only that it must. In so doing, it spreads disease.
If you see a rat, how do you react? Do you want to extend a helping hand? Or do you feel disgust at its presence and want it removed?
No, I think there is will here. That's why they always announce what they're doing before hand; they don't want to subvert us, they want us to subvert ourselves. Nothing gives them greater glee than watching us walk into a trap they themselves warned us of simply because we couldn't resist the bait.
I thought Thiel was ethnic German (just spiritually jew).
I'm pretty sure he is yeah. He's one of those weird Germans that looks like they brew adrenochrome in secret rooms
Probably, being a homo and all.
Im becoming convinced there's something sick in the german soul, it's always* them
as Tolkein said it "Evil cannot create, it can only corrupt what Good already made"
He never actually said that, but it's implied in the creation story.
Pretty sure it says something along those lines in a letter replying to a fan in regards to the origin of the orcs, but I think it is something closer to
"Evil cannot create life, it can only corrupt what God already made"
And I'm sure the exact wording varies. By the looks of it, probably what Tolkiengateway calls "letter 153", but the Tolkien estate seems to have done a thorough job of scrubbing that from the internet, so I can't say for certain. Probably published in the History of Middle Earth or something.
I think Frodo says "the Shadow cannot create, only mock" or something like that in the trilogy.
^^^This!^^^
I think he probably just likes the theme. I doubt if one of the wealthiest people in the world who owns a bunch of companies that most people have never heard of named them with some nefarious goal of supplanting Tolkien's usage of the words he made up.
This is Peter Thiel. Nothing he does is mere cohencidence. Just as Elon Musk didn't just run into him while sharing a cab on his way back from the Netscape HQ.
I kind of agree with SR388 but Thiel is indeed the guy who staged a lecture series on the antichrist to stop Google from autocompleting "Is Peter Thiel the antichrist"
I agree, it's not that.
He's using White mythology to tell us what he's doing because, when we fall for it anyway, he'll get the most pleasure from our fall.
It's a shame, if you look at his bio on paper it reads like he should be /ourguy/. Of course we used to think that about Elon too.
Pretty sure he sucks cock...
Literally. We're metaphorically retarded faggots.
He doesn't know what he's doing, it's in his nature.
The real question is why the Tolkein estate doesn't sue over these infringements. Seems like an open and shut case.
Unless these words are registered trademarks not really possible.
It's worse. It's spitting in Tolkien's face as he lies dead in his grave.
The entirety of the Lord of the Rings is an anti-war, pro-Christian metaphor. Tolkien was staunchly anti-war after his experiences in WW1. His service during the Battle of Somme is especially responsible for his anti-war sentiment and it's easy to see why. The battle remains to be one of the bloodiest in human history. The marsh scene where Frodo sees dead bodies floating in the water is directly based off of Tolkien's experience during the battle where he saw thousands of his dead countrymen lying down in puddles across entire fields. When he came back from the war, he learned his best friends from high school died in battle. Unlike Thiel, who has probably never even been in a fight much less a war, Tolkien was hardened by his experiences.
Tolkien was also against technology. He saw it as another tool of the elite to control human behavior. Tolkien described himself as a hobbit by nature and enjoyed the same pastoral life of good tobacco and hot food that the hobbits do. The Shire is his vision of utopia. When Frodo returns to the Shire at the end of the books to find it industrialized and destroyed by Orcs, that is Tolkien's metaphor for his own hometown turning from a beautiful English landscape to an industrious and ugly factory town. The only thing Orcs are better at doing than all of the other races in Tolkien's universe is technology.
The Ring's intoxicating and corrupting effects is Tolkien's belief that power corrupts even the noblest of intentions and wielding it will turn you into the very thing you sought to destroy. Tolkien believed that good, humble, and ordinary people like those he served with in war were the true history makers. Sam, Frodo's fiercely loyal servant, is Tolkien's direct metaphor for how deeply impressed he was by the ability of his servicemen, who often came from nothing, to go through literal hell to come out the other end. Naturally, all hobbits are based off of these men, which is why they are naturally resistant to the power that corrupts the ring more than the other, more "special" races.
For Thiel (and Palmer Lucky of Anduril) to name his ultra-militarized, ultra-technological, and ultra-powerful companies after Tolkien's legendarium is not only to misunderstand Tolkien's series so badly that it is indistinguishable from malice, but also to spit in Tolkien's face and to piss on his world. Thiel literally is Tolkien's warning and the reason for writing the series. The irony is on cosmic levels. Tolkien would be absolutely furious.
Isnt peter thiel far right?
No. He's a literal fag.
I see.
Heh. Thats funny to me.
Leftiods call Peter a nazzzteee, rightoids call him a faggot.
Political Cultists really are a cancer
He's a Libertarian who has given money to many politicians like JD Vance and Trump in this first term. Many Republicans don't like him because he's gay, is part owner of Palantr and they are brain washed by Democrats who hate him for funding Republicans.
Libertarians don't make companies who's sole purpose is mass surveillance.
"The government shouldn't be allow to make laws against my multinational mass surveillance company."
Is Thiel Jewish? If he is, the early life section was scrubbed, because I can't find anything that says he is.
Yes he is.
Doesn’t seem like it?
No, and that's worse. He should resist the devil but doesn't.
Obsfucation
Antichrist is the one who falsely calls himself "Christ", it's the same logic here. They don't pose themselves as the forces of evil, after all, instead they're the progressive absolute good.