Think about the optics, Frodo. It's important that you aren't seen as refusing to cooperate with Sauron in good faith. The people of Middle Earth might not appreciate it and, if they're not all flayed alive by the Nazgul for sport, could blame Hobbits next year.
If Chuck were Aragorn:
Men of Gondor...of Rohan...my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me...and I gotta say, you should probably go with that gut feeling cause I'm really not seeing any way we can win this thing🙄
After he’s done a lot of damage. And many will never have enough of him, and by then it may not matter as there may be no more real elections. Not sure wait and hope is a great strategy.
"Frodo you are a bad person for wanting to destroy the ring, destroying things is something that only irredeemably evil and violent people do, i thought u were better than that!"
Frodo, the ring is Sauron's property. If you destroy it, they will say we're thieves and vandals and we will lose the election. You should give it to Sauron and he will be so bad nobody will vote for him in 2028
this reminds me how this was unfortunately an actual plot point in the last jedi: "don't kill Emperor Palpatine, it's just what he wants to corrupt your soul! what? yes of course you can slaughter all his minions, why would you even ask?"
Is the Dark Lord too focused on Ring retrieval? At this Minas Morgul commissary, some orc-captains are having doubts.
"I understand I can't feast on the flesh of Man right away," said Gorbag. "But not even a taste of this little dainty Shelob caught? I worry that His Lidless Eye is losing focus."
The Nazgul are actually highly trained, laser focused special ops warriors dedicated to clearing out crime and UnMorderlike terrorist activity and we should be thanking them for their service
This analogy sucks! We weren’t at Mount Doom yet. This is like Frodo and Sam fighting the first pack of Orcs they came across instead of hiding so the Orcs would pass and they could continue their journey.
Then you show up and be all like “why didn’t you fight those Orcs coward”
They didn't hide from the orcs though. They walked right up to them, handed them the ring, said "we're good, right," gave a thumbs up, turned around, and got stabbed 38 times.
Frodo, we shouldn't bother trying to gain the trust of the kingdoms of men, elves, and dwarves. We need to prove to the Orcs that we're a safe middle-ground alternative to Sauron.
t’s never been about efficiency. It’s tearing down the US strength, security, economy, health and education for the benefit of the tinpot war criminal and allow the uberrich to pick up assets cheap in a recession.
Tariffs are to extort companies for bribes and break alliances.
Sorry—I’m not cool enough to know what “sharky” means here. At a guess, from an online slang dictionary, either that my comparison is clever or that Newsom is ruthless?
Look, it's chaos, and right now Sauron owns it. If he gets all the rings then it will all be his responsibility and the people will see who he really is.
Uhm, we see and we'd like you to stop him
No, just wait he will be even worse and then when he has accumulated the most power...
Frodo bound Gollum to swear upon the ring not to betray him, and then invoked the ring's assistance in cursing Gollum to fall into the fires of Mt Doom himself when Gollum attempted to steal the ring from him upon the slopes, and the ring then held Gollum to his oath to Frodo by destroying him
as Frodo cursed him to be destroyed. The ring was destroyed by Frodo, by its own will to punish those who betrayed it, and by the intervention of Eru Ilúvatar.
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"'Legolas, my lad, wanna go over there and kill everything in sight?'
"'In Mirkwood, we only kill that which harms us.'
Gimli blinks. Then '...fuck it. I'll do it myself.'"
Men of Gondor...of Rohan...my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me...and I gotta say, you should probably go with that gut feeling cause I'm really not seeing any way we can win this thing🙄
to balance out the leaders of men, elves, and dwarves which are controlled by Sauron's ring."
(yes, yes, fellow nerds i'm aware sauron actually, in his own mind, had far nobler motivations than any current republican)
"I understand I can't feast on the flesh of Man right away," said Gorbag. "But not even a taste of this little dainty Shelob caught? I worry that His Lidless Eye is losing focus."
Gollum got it and now he owns Tesla.
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Not just stealing someone's precious jewelry but destroying it!"
Then you show up and be all like “why didn’t you fight those Orcs coward”
Tariffs are to extort companies for bribes and break alliances.
He is... sharky!
Uhm, we see and we'd like you to stop him
No, just wait he will be even worse and then when he has accumulated the most power...