The One Ring

One of the analogies making the rounds of the Intarwebz is that, with the election of Barack Obama, it feels (there's that word) like "Frodo has finally destroyed the Ring."

Let's hope so, because I fear that a better analogy might be that Faramir did not let Frodo and Sam go in Ithilien. Instead, he carried the Ring to Minas Tirith. There the people of the White City surrendered the Ring to the Witch King of Angmar hoping that Sauron would stop his invasion of the West.

It doesn't take much to imagine how that would turn out.