July 6, 2004

Re: Annatar
Danny

I am hesitant to bring up the analogy, but it so perfectly fits your reply about Huan. I recall a certain leader in Iraq a year ago who insisted that the US soldiers were not any where near Baghdad, and that all the news footage was staged. He mysteriously stopped making any such claims, and actually dissapeared from the media entirely about a day before Baghdad was liberated. I remember how fascinated I was by a man who would either be so dillusional about his own false reality, or such a blatant liar. I found it both ammusing and sad at the same time. So now Huan was a gift to Luthien, and the Silmaril was Morgoth's wedding gift to the happy couple? Sorry but it seems like an awfully similar set of humerously ammusing rhetoric to me, only this would be like that same leader (don't remember who he was) claiming that the US forces were still far outside Baghdad after the footage of the Hussein statue toppling was aired internationally.

Disclaimer: If anybody replies either for or against the military involvement in Iraq I will never forgive myself so please don't. Call me crazy, but this is a Tolkien forum so lets keep it that way. In that spirit, I will refrain from voicing my feelings about that now. We have had plenty of deviations from the Tolkien debate, and yes we know that this forum has managed to bring together a pretty diverse collection of ideas and opinions which is awesome. This forum however is not the place to discuss all of those differences.