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<blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 7671314" data-attributes="member: 6787503"><p>Their war-making capabilities seem to imply a robust economy, but this is long after they have taken on the yoke of evil. My understanding is that most of the peoples of ME had worshipped Sauron and/or Morgoth for thousands of years before the events of LR, so I doubt if any them would remember what kind of economy they had before that time. I think we can assume varying states of development throughout the world at the time of the War of the Ring. Gondor, on the other hand, seems to be somewhat underdeveloped and depopulated, thus the bringing in of the alien Horse-lords to secure the northern border. Perhaps one of Sauron's goals would have been to develop and increase the productivity of the lands of Gondor by increasing the population with settlers from the south and east, to which, I assume, he promised dominion.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It wouldn't <em>necessarily</em> make one evil, but Sauron becomes evil because he uses the exercise of raw power as the most expedient means of realizing his reformist goals. Contrast this with the prohibition under which Gandalf operates against using <em>his</em> power. In Tolkien's book, power is reserved for the Valar.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Right, and yet we do see Aragorn struggling with the temptation to use the power of the ring, leading him to separate himself from the Quest of the Ringbearer. Boromir is like Aragorn's shadow in this, in that he gives in to temptation and falls at the same moment in which Aragorn makes his decision to leave, or split, the company. His path is to exercise temporal power as a mortal king, but to exercise such power as the ring would give him would transform him into a second dark lord. The same is true for Galadriel, another who would rule and order things to her will. Even Gandalf seems to find it difficult to reject the ring, and yet he does so knowing that although it may be the most expedient path to winning the war, the power of the ring is ultimately the power to dominate the will of other beings, and to use it is to turn one's back on what is good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hriston, post: 7671314, member: 6787503"] Their war-making capabilities seem to imply a robust economy, but this is long after they have taken on the yoke of evil. My understanding is that most of the peoples of ME had worshipped Sauron and/or Morgoth for thousands of years before the events of LR, so I doubt if any them would remember what kind of economy they had before that time. I think we can assume varying states of development throughout the world at the time of the War of the Ring. Gondor, on the other hand, seems to be somewhat underdeveloped and depopulated, thus the bringing in of the alien Horse-lords to secure the northern border. Perhaps one of Sauron's goals would have been to develop and increase the productivity of the lands of Gondor by increasing the population with settlers from the south and east, to which, I assume, he promised dominion. It wouldn't [I]necessarily[/I] make one evil, but Sauron becomes evil because he uses the exercise of raw power as the most expedient means of realizing his reformist goals. Contrast this with the prohibition under which Gandalf operates against using [I]his[/I] power. In Tolkien's book, power is reserved for the Valar. Right, and yet we do see Aragorn struggling with the temptation to use the power of the ring, leading him to separate himself from the Quest of the Ringbearer. Boromir is like Aragorn's shadow in this, in that he gives in to temptation and falls at the same moment in which Aragorn makes his decision to leave, or split, the company. His path is to exercise temporal power as a mortal king, but to exercise such power as the ring would give him would transform him into a second dark lord. The same is true for Galadriel, another who would rule and order things to her will. Even Gandalf seems to find it difficult to reject the ring, and yet he does so knowing that although it may be the most expedient path to winning the war, the power of the ring is ultimately the power to dominate the will of other beings, and to use it is to turn one's back on what is good. [/QUOTE]
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