Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 5/3/83; site ukc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!ukc!ncg From: ncg@ukc.UUCP (N.C.Gale) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: ring.of.power Message-ID: <4959@ukc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Mar-85 11:01:13 EST Article-I.D.: ukc.4959 Posted: Sat Mar 9 11:01:13 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 20:04:07 EST References: <815@oliven.UUCP> Reply-To: ncg@ukc.UUCP (Nigel Gale) Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Kent at Canterbury, UK Lines: 35 Summary: And so the Good Guys won their struggle. Once they persuaded the common folk to their point of view, victory was swift. The Evil Ring of Power was cast into the Sacred Fire, and the Middle Earth was free from its corrupting influence forever. Yet all was not happy in the world. For there existed a number of horrible beasts of awsome power, who had been afraid to emerge while the Ring existed. But now, they crawled out from their lairs and began to wreak devastation upon the defenceless folk. Each one carved an empire from the lands that had been held by the Wielder of the Ring, and the peoples became their slaves, tools to further each Beast's power. These monsters became known as 'Plutocrats'. The common people came to realise that they were now worse off than they had been under the Ring of Power - that while the Ring had undesirable side-effects on its wielder, its power had its source in Order and Accountability. Whenever a Ring wielder had become evil from using it, another wielder had been selected. But now the Ring was destroyed forever, and it would take centuries to forge another. Alas, but that the common folk had only considered more carefully the arguements of the Good Guys - for now the Beasts of Power would not relinquish their hold easily. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The above has been a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Bad Guys. -Nigel Gale