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Zelda got into this stuff because of her attraction to Link. Similarly good-looking, but much more reserved and shy. Comes from a rich family. While her initial attention was focused on Link, she finds herself genuinely enjoying the activities for their own merits and becomes a minor expert on some elements of nerd lore in short order. She's a bit of a casual Christian, some of the values not sitting well with her contemporary views on morality. A true believer, though.
Gannondorf is a pig of a guy, and his bitterness over women has caused him to become misogynistic and dismissive. With his current state of mind, he's largely incapable of appreciating a woman outside her sexual value, imagining the perfect relationship as one of subservience, even if he isn't aware that he thinks this way. Friends with Link, but frustrated over the attention Zelda gives him. He'd rather blame the world for his problems than change for the better or risk the bubble he's constructed around himself. Deeply into the occult, and thinks it makes him seem cool.
oh god what am I doing
guys stop me before its too late
please
Gearing up with extremely flamboyant music.
Fingers crossed.
Still poking around for other schools to apply to. Considering Ithaca.
NOW Who's laughing!?
I need to start doing this...
I'm already sleepy
god, i'm weak
oh god, now that i've read homestuck, aragorn has become dave in my mind
kill me
Then take a nap. THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES!
> I'm 57 mins into Lord of the rings
> I'm already sleepy
not big surprise
Nazis blah blah blah Isengard = Italy blah blah blah elves = England
blah blah blah humans = Americans blah blah blah has been made at least
once.
Best begin fleeing before Tolkien's corpse gets up and plays cockhockey with your head.
He wrote the bulk of it before WWII and hated the allegorical interpretation -- in fact, he hated allegory as a primary means of interpretation because he found it trivialising towards literature. The entire concept of the Ring existed long before the nuke.
Besides, Rohan is Germany (or at least Austria), Gondor is Italy. The Shire is England (duh, "Shire" is a common suffix for place names there) and the Rivendell elves live where Oxford would be on the Middle Earth map, although the rest of that region may be taken as France when it was Celtic Gaul.
The Easterlings are Middle Easterners and the Southrons are North Africans, both of whom have been tricked into the service of Sauron. Mordor itself isn't anywhere, as Tolkien didn't want to use an existing nation to represent that kind of evil, so it's a kind of disembodied corruption of a Central European nation.
If there's any allegory to be had, it's to Classical era Europe with high medieval technology.
Managed to kill the doctor, a random citizen of Goodsprings, Old Pete, and Sunny's dog before my rampage was finally brought to an end
What would the best starting layout be if I wanted to kill everything and everyone in the starting town?
NOT LITERALLY BUT HOLY FUCK OW THIS HURTS
- The Ring (nuke allegory) was developed by the race of Men (Americans) before Mordor (Germany) could develop its own. In this case, however, the nuke is a German invention that finds its way into the hands of the English.
- Mordor (Germany) invades Eriador (England and France), but the assault fails and tide of war changes.
and so on and so forth.
LotR simply lacks coherence with WWII. For instance, Pearl Harbour was the catalyst for the USA's military involvement in the conflict, yet there is no allegorical equivalent to Japan. Nor in there an allegorical equivalent to Poland, the Russians or anything to do with the Eastern Front. There are simply too many factors missing or unaligned with the historical realities of WWII for LotR to be comprehensively interpreted within that framework. There's a stronger argument for WWI, which Tolkien actually fought and lost many friends within.
On the other hand, LotR hides some historical and mythological events in itself. Rohan's aid towards Gondor in the Battle of Pelennor Fields resembles the joining of forces between mounted Gothic warriors and Roman legions in the face of the Huns, wherein Gothic assistance came as a great surprise to the Romans and Huns alike. Eriador resembles post-Roman Saxon Britain, lacking in central leadership and consisting mostly of untamed countryside.
I'm all for death of the author when it's clever or contributes greatly to the story, but in this case it seems to be people very broadly fitting a wider cultural experience over something that was both notable and published shortly after. If anything, mind, Tolkien portrayed Germans and Italians as noble and good people -- as Rohan and Gondor respectively, they provide some of the principle heroes of the story, exceeded only by English gentlemen (Hobbits) and an ambiguously Germano-Celtic prince (Aragorn).
tl;dr: LotR doesn't follow WWII's plot very closely at all. WWII could be used to provide a moral compass and relate factions, but only because it was morally unambiguous with the slaughter of the Jews and all. Excepting that lack of ambiguity, any war could be chosen to represent sides and politics in LotR just as easily.