The Lord of the Rings | Real World Parallels - Stefan Molyneux and Duke Pesta
If the ring of power is "Sophistry" the ability to bend the truth, appeal to emotion and be corrupted by power. If the Hobbit was WWI and The Lord of the Rings is WWII, sophistry is the rhetoric of Hitler and Muslini was Saruman, who stared in to the heart of darkness and was corrupted. You be the judge