A glorified terrorist group

Broke a damn and flooded and drowned hundreds.

Made a recreational sport out of slaughtering as many Orcs as possible
- "Millenia pass, but orc slaying remains a unending pleasure"
- Killed an endangered species as part of their blood sport.
That was arguably a separate faction, although the fellowship did do their best to inspire them to acts of war.

One man's terrorist is another man's fellowship

The Last Ringbearer, Kirill Yeskov (1999)

drove a balrog out of its natural habitat

Akshully, they tried to keep it there. Imprisoned because of its religious beliefs! Killed while attempting escape!

Just like Nazist did…

Disturbers of the peace.

The CIA couldn't have done it better themselves.

are you talking about committing the deeds listed or writing this hit piece
- I meant committing the deeds but, now that you mention it, both.

They didn't kill the balrog. Gandalf merely defeated its physical form, but Durin's Bane is a Maia, an immortal, spiritual being.

Don't forget that the GDP was on an upword trend with Mordor unemployment at near 0 levels. These jobs were never replaced, and won't unless we can get some government financing back to ShiningSauron, inc. (IPO coming 4th Age)

I'd argue the Balrog was more Durin's people's doing. Fellowship pretty much just wandered into a clusterfuck already in progress there.

smth smth "one person's terrorist" smth smth

“Terrorism is the war of the poor and powerless. War is the terrorism of the rich and powerful.”
- War is the terrorism of the rich and powerful
  I thought it was the police

Like a right wing spin on proles trying to live unenslaved lives.

The list of bullet points sound like they're describing some nations I know of.

The problem with "The Empire did nothing wrong" contrarian gags is that actual fascists fucking love it.

you might enjoy The Last Ringbearer by Kirill Yeskov.

having noticed what sub I'm in, y'all probably already know about it.

Damn, I came to post this. Fun thought experiment of a book, and the ebook is (by necessity) free!

Good and evil are a matter of perspective.

Bruh, Sauron's litterally evil on middle earth, cut from wikipedia: "Tolkien, while denying that absolute evil could exist, stated that Sauron came as near to a wholly evil will as was possible"
- In every good story or movie, it takes an obvious bad guy.
  Evil people in real life aren't so obvious.
- yes, the author wrote the books as a struggle btwn good vs evil, which makes all the stuff in the meme okay.
  But what if we strip away those concepts? that's the whole point of this meme! why would you ackshully this comment 🤣
yeah I appreciate this meme. one could say the fellowship did all this awful shit, but because the struggle was viewed as good vs evil, it's all permissible