The Lord of the Ring

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Jim Paredes recently tweets about the analogy of our current political situation with the novel and movie Lord of the Ring:


If we were in LOTR and Noynoy is Frodo, and Mar is Sam, who is Gibo? and who are Aragorn, Smeegol, Sauron? YOur thoughts.


Here's Jim's and followers of his twitter account's take on this:
  • Noynoy Aquino is Frodo Baggins, who is set to destroy The Ring to give power back to the people
  • Mar Roxas is Sam Gamgee, the ever loyal friend of Frodo (hindi kami maghihiwalay ni Noynoy!)
  • The Ring represents Power that corrupts people
  • The main antagonist, the Dark Lord Sauron represents greed and corruption
  • The current administration is Nazgul. Slaves to the promise of the Ring (power) and Servants of Sauron (corruption)
  • The Filipino people represents Aragorn, the reluctant yet real "King" to whom Frodo and Sam will be ultimately loyal
  • The Shire is represented by the Aquino sisters, which Noynoy leaves against his will to rid the world of The Ring
  • Erap is Gollum (Smeagol), the one who had the ring, was corrupted by it, wants it again OR the one who had the ring and wont let go! Hint: Maliit din siya!
  • Elrond is the memory of Ninoy and other Marcos era heroes. Linking us to the past struggles against Sauron
  • Someone suggested Jim or APO to be Legolas. Naks! Chavit is Shelob. Elves are the celebrities who support Noynoy
How about you, what's your take on this?

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ha ha! Funny!

Gloria is Saruman, Ping Lacson is Gandalf

Anonymous said...

Risa Hontiveros is Galadriel

Anonymous said...

Ilagay niyo naman ang Track Record ni Noynoy... Kung deserving ba siya mamuno sa bayan natin...Kahit anak yan ni President Cory, di ibig sabihin ganyan din siya... Isipin niyo Cojuangco din yan, malay niyo may dugo rin yan tulad ni Danding. Si Cory di Corrupt,pero si Danding Cojuangco noon, ano ang ROLE niya.

Carlos Celdran posted a list of his accomplishments as legislator in his blogspot:

http://celdrantours.blogspot.com/2009/09/this-is-what-noynoy-has-done.html

But for me, his greatest asset was not what he has done, but what he hasn't done, as Carlos said.

Anonymous said...

i believe frodo was corruppted as well in the last part. this maybe the dumbest comparison i ever read. well maybe the erap part is pretty acccurate.

Anonymous said...

the same can be said about the arroyo administration.

gloria was frodo. erap and his forces were sauron.
teofisto guingona was smeegol.

and noynoy aquino was just an insignificant extra sitting on his thumb watching the entire spectacle.. doing NOTHING..

how's that for proper perspective?

Anonymous said...

the same can be said about the arroyo administration.

gloria was frodo. erap and his forces were sauron. teofisto guingona was smeegol.

and noynoy aquino was just an insignificant extra sitting on his thumb watching the entire spectacle.. doing NOTHING..

how's that for proper perspective?

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