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January 11, 2004
Trudging to the Crack of Doom
Matthew Baldwin has figured out the truth about The Lord of the Rings:
By the way, halfway through The Return of the King I figured out that the entire Lord of the Rings saga is an allegory for pregnancy.
Seriously, check it out. You got your Frodo and your Sam, trudging to the Crack of Doom, right? And that's about as apt a description for pregnancy as you're likely to find: nine months of trudging to Mordor. (Fun fact: "trudging to Mordor" was euphemism they used on I Love Lucy before they could say "pregnant" on the air!)
But only one person is the appointed bearer. And that poor sap has to carry the burden the entire way, a burden that just gets heavier and heavier as the weeks wear on.
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Posted by John at January 11, 2004 08:36 PM
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