The mouth of Sauron has spoken

[The Architect Of Fate]

Perfect example of how US pop culture serves as indirect but effective propaganda against whomever the government wants you to hate at the moment.

No, it's a perfect example of seeing real-life evil and comparing it to fictional evil because there are parallels. Fiction imitating real-life.

Now Putin is not only New Modern Hitler but an evil wizard as well. It's cool that he's this all-powerful embodiment of evil in one sentence, and then an idiot doomed to fail in the next.

Sauron wasn't all-powerful and throughout Tolkien lore, he does all sorts of stupid shit and is ignorant of all sorts of things, Angering Eru Ilúvata, Messing with Elves, Trying to backstab Ungoliant, He didn't know about the shire. He didn't know Gollum had the ring. Also, he wasn't a wizard he was a fallen Maia. So not only do you know nothing about the Russian/Ukraine conflict you know nothing about Lord Of The Ring Either.

By identifying real-world politics with black-and-white fantasy fiction, we eliminate nuance, inconvenient facts, and the ability to think clearly.

Again you know nothing about Tolkien lore none of the good races are perfectly good. Men are weak to power. Elves are often arrogant and short-sighted and Dwarves tend to be greedy and stubborn and impulsive and the history of all three races is filled with wicked deeds and flawed characters. However, they are contrasted with a much more overt evil as with this conflict. This doesn't kill nuance it puts it into perspective that as messed up as we are Putin and his cronies are much worst. You don't understand this conflict and you don't understand Tolkien's lore.

 A Lore correction. It was Melkor that aligned with Ungoliant, not Sauron. Sauron was aligned with Shelob her daughter but still, he made the stupid move of trying to betray her and making her his enemy. That mistake was bugging me.