<div>Maybe they represented Romans! Or Germans!<br><br>It makes perfect sense for Tolkien to equate American military might with the servants of Manwe. I mean, he completely approved of all actions taken by the Allies during the wars.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Jerry Friedman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jerry_friedman@yahoo.com">jerry_friedman@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">From: Lee Berman <<a href="mailto:severiansola@hotmail.com">severiansola@hotmail.com</a>><br>
<div class="im"><br><br>>>And Tolkien would weep a silent tear to see his work called "allegorical."<br><br>>Hmph, then he shouldn't have had created all those bad guys as<br>>dark-skinned guys from south and east riding elephants.<br>
<br></div>Only the guys from the south ride elephants. The humans from the east aren't described as dark-skinned, as I recall. Maybe you're talking about the orcs, though.<br>
<div class="im"><br>>Nor should<br>>he have allowed "eagles" to save the day at the end of his two big<br>>(hobbit-involved) wars.<br><br></div>If people have suggested that the eagles represent the United States, that's just horrible. I'm not going to dispute that the eagles might have led people into such interpretations, though.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>Jerry Friedman<br></font>
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