Commentary by Zinn and Chomsky on LOTR

[XemaSab]

UNUSED
AUDIO COMMENTARY
BY HOWARD ZINN
AND NOAM CHOMSKY, RECORDED FOR THE RETURN OF THE KING (PLATINUM SERIES EXTENDED EDITION)
DVD, PART ONE
OF FOUR.

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2005/3/18ring.html

[XemaSab]

1. This was FUNNY, people!

gawd, no sense of humor....

[DerekG]

2. Folks, I'm practically a socialist, and even I'm laughing

This bit kills me:

CHOMSKY: Mordor, the "dark land." Which you correctly pointed out before we began should be properly known as Orcistan.

ZINN: Naturally, seeing that it's Men who trapped the Orcs within its borders and started referring to these lands as "Mordor." Orcs, of course, used to live throughout Middle Earth, before they were corralled—in a heartbreaking Orcish "Trail of Tears"—into this inhospitable, seismically active land.

CHOMSKY: Note later the beautiful, fertile fields between Minas Tirith and the mountains that encircle Mordor. Neither Men nor Orcs cultivate them, and clearly the purpose of the garrison at Osgiliath is to keep Orcs away from valuable farmland.


Bloody brilliant.

[XemaSab]

3. kick

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