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Old 08-05-2005, 02:42 PM   #1
drigel
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How Would it Be?

As I cast off the Waistcoat of Cannonicity (keeping the shiny buttons for future use), I have been prodded to start a thread that was initially inspired by Beth's musings regarding how history always is written by the winners. Lets go for a mind bending exercise. I take from the Waistcoat my quoting of the Brin article:

Brin on T

I wonder about how the Redbook (or BlackBook) would have read if perhaps Gollum was the author, instead of Bilbo/Frodo. How would Sauron lay down the history? He has his 9 walkers/riders. He has his undersized Hero. There certainly was a sense of "racial purity" at least among the humans on the opposing side of Sauron. At least he could claim "... all the despised colors of humanity, and all the lower classes." were among his ranks.

Numenorians as invading colonials... elves as Time Control freaks....

Leaping on such tangents will lead you to ponder: "were the orcs really pure evil?"... Nazism certainly was considered evil, but was National Socialism in it's pure sense? ... Volkswagons?... Germans?
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