A saint I ain’t. But I have competed for a saint. At one of my childhood schools, the pupils were divided into groups, or houses, named after the saints who wrote the Gospels. There was Mattheus House, Marcus House, Lucas House and Johannes House. All of them had a Head of House appointed from pupils in their final year before university. I was in Marcus House and one year our Head of House was a tall, charismatic and athletic youth whom I’ll call Will. With a typically alpha mixture of charm, authority and good example, Will persuaded the usually underperforming members of Marcus to train hard for the annual Sports Day. Thanks to him, we won the Sports Day easily over Johannes, who were traditionally much stronger at sport.
Toxic Trump and Malevolent MAGA
We won so easily, in fact, the following year I confidently expected us to win the Sports Day again. Yes, Will had gone off to university and his replacement as Head of House wasn’t a charismatic alpha, but surely the momentum of the previous year would carry us to victory again. It didn’t. Marcus lost to Johannes. And badly. It was one of my first lessons in the importance of leadership and individual will. And I’ve been thinking of those two Sports Days ever since the defeat of beautiful brown Kamala Harris in the US presidential election. Why have leftists not been throwing big tantrums over the re-election of Despicable Donald? They’ve witnessed a Triumph of the Villains — Toxic Trump and his malevolent MAGA movement — and yet they’ve not been raging and rioting as they did during his first term.
Why not? Is it simply that they’re demoralized and “exhausted,” too traumatized by Trump’s triumph to fight the foulness of fascism on behalf of the helpless undocumented migrants and transwomen whom MAGA are already torturing? I don’t think so. Instead, it feels to me as though some powerful guiding mind has deserted the left, has declined to organize and animate the masked legions of Antifa, to pour willpower and funding into riots and days of rage. That’s why I’ve been thinking of those two starkly contrasting Sports Days at my old school, one with Will and one without, one easily won and the other badly lost. But I’ve not just been thinking of sports: I’ve been thinking of Sauron. He’s the titular villain of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, a hideously powerful necromancer with a will of adamant and overwhelming military might. Yet he’s defeated in the end not by a fellow wizard or a mighty warrior, but by two Hobbits, Frodo and Sam, simple members of a despised and dwarvish race from a far-away land with no army and no tradition of magic. That’s one of Tolkien’s central themes: how the mighty can be brought low by the minute. And this is how Tolkien describes what happens when Sauron’s will of adamant deserts his undefeatable armies:
But the Nazgûl turned and fled, and vanished into Mordor’s shadows, hearing a sudden terrible call out of the Dark Tower; and even at that moment all the hosts of Mordor trembled, doubt clutched their hearts, their laughter failed, their hands shook and their limbs were loosed. The Power that drove them on and filled them with hate and fury was wavering, its will was removed from them; and now looking in the eyes of their enemies they saw a deadly light and were afraid. …“The realm of Sauron is ended!” said Gandalf. “The Ring-bearer has fulfilled his Quest.” And as the Captains gazed south to the Land of Mordor, it seemed to them that, black against the pall of cloud, there rose a huge shape of shadow, impenetrable, lightning-crowned, filling all the sky. Enormous it reared above the world, and stretched out towards them a vast threatening hand, terrible but impotent: for even as it leaned over them, a great wind took it, and it was all blown away, and passed; and then a hush fell.
The Captains bowed their heads; and when they looked up again, behold! their enemies were flying and the power of Mordor was scattering like dust in the wind. As when death smites the swollen brooding thing that inhabits their crawling hill and holds them all in sway, ants will wander witless and purposeless and then feebly die, so the creatures of Sauron, orc or troll or beast spell-enslaved, ran hither and thither mindless; and some slew themselves, or cast themselves in pits, or fled wailing back to hide in holes and dark lightless places far from hope. (The Return of the King [1955], chapter 4)
That ant-hill simile is an echo of ancient Homer in Tolkien’s twentieth-century epic. And Tolkien’s simile reminds me of leftists since Trump’s election. They too are “witless and purposeless,” with doubt clutching their hearts and their laughter failing. They’re not raging and rioting, but retiring from combat. And I think it’s because, like the armies of Sauron, they’re minions, not masters. It wasn’t their own will that directed them in their war on the West, but the will of others. I suggested in my article “Piranha Patel” that the willful others are Jews. Since the attack on Israel by Hamas in October 2023 and noisy pro-Palestinian marches in cities like New York, London and Paris, some important Jews have decided that Jews need to end their traditional support for non-White immigration and for anti-White ideologies like Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).
The left is bereft
Deprived of Jewish willpower, brains, and funding, the left is bereft. Leftists are NPCs (Non-Player Characters) who can’t act and organize on their own. Jews played the role of Sauron for the leftist armies waging war on Truth, Beauty and Goodness. And now Sauron has gone: Jews have decided that rioting and raging against Trump wouldn’t be good for Jews. That’s what it feels like to me. And that’s why I’ve been thinking of Sports Days and that Sauronic simile in Lord of the Rings. I might be wrong about the main cause of the left’s passivity, but I’m not wrong to think about Lord of the Rings. It’s always a good time to be inspired by Tolkien and his stirring stories of Truth, Beauty and Goodness at war with Lies, Ugliness and Evil. And that brings me to one of the best accounts I’ve ever come across on Twitter: The Daily Gondor. If you’re not familiar with Tolkien and Lord of the Rings, you’ll be baffled by it. However, if you are familiar, it will be one of the funniest and cleverest things you’ll ever read.
The Daily Gondor purports to be a truth-telling, toxicity-battling media-feed for the inhabitants of Tolkien’s Middle-earth. It’s overseen by Gríma Wormtongue, the wise and faithful advisor to King Théoden of Rohan. That’s how Wormtongue wants to be seen, anyway. In reality, he’s a liar and a traitor, a sly spinner of word-webs who paralyzes Théoden’s will, rendering him helpless to govern and defend his own kingdom. Wormtongue turns black into white, pretends that good is evil and evil good. And now he’s editing the Daily Gondor. In other words, the Daily Gondor (DG) is a parody of the Guardian, New York Times and other leftist media, who all spin word-webs in the service of lies, ugliness and evil. For example, those real newspapers all use a sacralizing capital letter for “Black” just as the DG and sister-outlets like Barad-dûrFeed (sic) use a sacralizing capital letter for “Orc” (orcs are the ugly and evil warriors of Sauron and Barad-dûr is the name of Sauron’s fortress in the grim realm of Mordor). The real leftist media minimize the murder, rape and theft committed by Blacks and other non-Whites just as the DG minimizes the decapitation, cannibalism and looting of Orcs. And where the real leftist media incessantly condemn racism and transphobia, the DG incessantly condemns “orcophobia,” the irrational fear of Orcs and their vibrant culinary and cultural habits. Here are some typical headlines from the Daily Gondor and Barad-dûrFeed:
- Violence caused by Orcs and Goblins never makes it to your newsfeeds simply because it doesn’t exist.
- It’s impossible to have a modern, civilized society without Orcs and cannibalism is a small price to pay.
- Yes, Orcs Want to Slaughter and Enslave Us All, but If We Oppose Their Freedom, Then We’re Just As Bad.
- I fed my children to Goblins and have never been happier.
- Orcs Catapulted Severed Heads Over the Walls and My Daughter Was Horrified. Am I Raising an Orcophobe?
- Elves aren’t real, recent research to curb the elf-right suggests.
- Truth and Beauty are elf-centric concepts.
- People are happier when besieged by orcs or eaten alive, says happiness expert.
- We keep hearing about “legitimate concerns” over Mondor’s invasion. There are none.
That last headline is a parody of the Guardian’s now infamous article: “We keep hearing about ‘legitimate concerns’ over immigration. The truth is, there are none.” But the DG does more than just parody the Guardian and other leftist media: it also points at the disproportionate and controlling role of Jews in leftism and the war on Truth, Beauty and Goodness. Jews have names like Goldsmith, Goldberg and Rubinstein (the latter two names mean “Gold-mountain” and “Ruby-stone” in German). Journalists for the DG and BDF have names like Gobli Mithrilsmith, Thogrun Mithrilgroper, Rothli Jewelrubber and Gambi Jewelsqueezer (mithril is Middle-earth’s most precious metal). And look at this headline: “Rivendell politician SACKED after suggesting 8 out of 9 major Palintírí outlets are controlled by just 3 dwarven clans.” The journalist for that article is one Shuldur Goldstonemountain, who writes of how “in a reckless display of dangerous noticing the official, whose name will soon be erased and forgotten, hurt Rivendell’s reputation and standing.”
That’s a clever joke about Jewish dominance in the media and the way Jews condemn and cancel those who discuss that dominance. The Daily Gondor is wise, witty and White-friendly. It’s written by a true Tolkien fan and I can heartily recommend it to all other true Tolkien fans.
Samples of The Daily Gondor
