“Hollywood celebrity Viggo Mortensen has expressed his displeasure after Spanish populist party VOX created a meme using his portrayal of Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings films.”
Aragorn is a heroic character played by Viggo Mortensen in the popular movie Lord of the Rings, and lets be realistic, he did not write his own script, nor is he anything (evidently) in real life, like his admirable character Aragorn who stood for good and battled evil. Mortensen (for what little it should be worth) stated about VOX:
“Not only is it absurd that I, the actor who embodied this character for Peter Jackson, and a person interested in the rich variety of cultures and languages that exist in Spain and the world, is linked to an ultra-nationalist and neo-fascist political party…..It is even more ridiculous to use the character of Aragorn, a polyglot statesman who advocates knowledge and inclusion of the diverse races, customs and languages of Middle Earth, to legitimise an anti-immigrant, anti-feminist and Islamophobic political group.”
Most ridiculous of all is Mortensen’s complete dismissal of the origins of the The Lord of the Rings. J. R. R. Tolkien, was the scholar who wrote the epic novel. He was a devout Christian who reportedly fell into despair “especially toward the end of his life, as he took account of the world situation”. In 1969, he wrote: “The spirit of wickedness in high places is now so powerful and so many-headed in its incarnations.” When one notes the global jihad, along with the abuses sanctioned by Islam, such “wickedness” in its current-day “incarnation” would surely have adversely affected Tolkien. His own country of ancestry betrayed innocent victims by covering up Muslim rape gangs which brutalized up to a million young girls, in the UK’s quest to promote “diversity” and avoid being deemed “Islamophobic”.
The current state of the EU since the flood of Muslim migration has rendered parts of it no-go zones, and many other parts to be unsafe. Catastrophic abuses are routinely committed in accordance with the Sharia on a mass scale which would have surely been rather upsetting to Tolkien who cared about humanity. Tolkien once said that The Lord of the Rings “was a deeply Christian and Catholic work.” It was Tolkien who converted his friend who was an atheist to Christianity– legendary fellow scholar and author C.S. Lewis. As well known, “Christian stories heavily influenced the Narnia books”, which resulted in the box office hits “The Chronicles of Narnia” that grossed over 500-million.
Western globalists have surrendered its fine Judeo-Christian roots to Islam. Despite the exhausted arguments which condemn Christianity for its history of forced conversions during the Crusades, and for oppression and colonialism, such actions are not and were not sanctioned by the texts of Christianity which preach peace, human rights, equality and love. Even so, Western nations have evolved and have corrected such past wrongs, while Islam continues its violence, supremacy, and abuse in the name of its religion. It is Judeo-Christian democracy that advances equality for all, human rights, diversity, peace and tolerance, not the sharia. Mortensen will do well (along with his fans) to educate himself and recognize the exceptional role he played in his character Aragorn, which was created not by him, but by the hand of the gifted, Christian J.R.R.Tolkien; a character which exemplifies the fight to maintain Western freedoms.
In the creation of the Aragorn (not Mortensen) meme, VOX chose an ideal character. Although Mortensen claims to support diversity and inclusion, he has not learned that normative Islam is antithetical to both at its roots.
“‘Lord of the Rings’ Actor Viggo Mortensen Complains After Spanish Populists Use ‘Aragorn’ Character Election Meme”, by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, May 9, 2019:
Hollywood celebrity Viggo Mortensen has expressed his displeasure after Spanish populist party VOX created a meme using his portrayal of Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings films.
The image, which is based on a scene from the trilogy of films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s landmark fantasy novels, shows Mortensen as Aragorn with the VOX logo over his face, facing down far-left extremist groups like Antifa, feminists, Communists, and anarchists, Spanish newspaper El País reports.Upon seeing the meme, Mortensen expressed extreme displeasure telling El País, “Not only is it absurd that I, the actor who embodied this character for Peter Jackson, and a person interested in the rich variety of cultures and languages that exist in Spain and the world, is linked to an ultra-nationalist and neo-fascist political party.”
“It is even more ridiculous to use the character of Aragorn, a polyglot statesman who advocates knowledge and inclusion of the diverse races, customs and languages of Middle Earth, to legitimise an anti-immigrant, anti-feminist and Islamophobic political group,” he added.
Warner Bros., who own the rights to the Lord of the Rings films directed by Peter Jackson, also released a statement saying they did not endorse the use of the images saying, “Warner Bros has not authorised the use of our intellectual property for any political campaign.”
Since winning 12 seats and 11 per cent of the vote in the Andalusian elections in December, VOX has emerged as a new political force in Spain. In the Spanish national elections, which took place late last month, the party won 10.2 per cent of the vote and 24 seats in the Spanish parliament…..
terry sullivan says
hes an actor–most are opinionated fools
mortimer says
Mortensen is spontaneous, unread, unstudied about Islam and thus not qualified to speak about Islam. I doubt he knows any of Islam’s *ESSENTIAL* teachings which require Muslims to hate disbelievers and subjugate them. Islam does not in any way support Mortensen’s purported values …equality, pluralism, diversity, but rather their opposites with monotonous uniformity.
As for his claim about MISOGYNY … WHERE HAS MORTENSEN BEEN ???
Has Mortensen never read about FGM, Islamic wife-beating, whipping and stoning of adulteresses, honor-killing? These are normative parts of Islam, rather than aberrations.
It would be CONSISTENT if Mortensen were to CONDEMN ISLAM for its intolerance, brutality and misogyny. It seems he is be afraid to criticize Islam because he has an allergy to BEHEADING and other quaint, Islamic vigilante customs from the 7th century. He criticizes those who criticizes Islam … people who believe in human rights and rule of law … and who DON’T believe in vigilantism.
That’s rather timid if Mortensen thinks himself a ‘hero’ … isn’t it? Mortensen must know deep down that Vigilantism is normative Islam.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
The chapter about woman beating Allah put into the Holy Ko-Ran could instruct us all. To me the best part was his advice to take care and not leave any marks on your freshly beaten gal is solid, if a bit outdated. I say this because former DNC co-chair Keith Ellison left injury marks all over his freshly beaten gal, as proved in the hospital photos taken of her before treatment. But the state of Minnesota chose to not prosecute Ellison for felony woman beating.
Keith, a Moslem, is now the Minnesota Attorney General, which means that the chances of woman beater being prosecuted in the Land of 10,000 Lakes are very low now… at least if the woman beater is a Moslem.
mortimer says
Did Minnesota voter not realize that they were voting IN FAVOR of wife-beating?
Richard says
As an actor who played the Mayor of the Munchkins in a college production of the Wizard of Oz, I feel perfectly equipped by experience to give expert testimony on the dangers of invasion. Dorothy’s balloon could easily have crushed some of us Munchkins, and her vile little dog, Toto, terrorized some of us. I can only imagine what it would have been like if they were Muslims, raping and pillaging our beautiful country in the real world. Unlike Toto, there are some real rabid Muslima bitches in congress. Unlike a director, when a Muslim says “Cut!”, he means with a sword or a knife – and makeup won’t cover the gash or heal the wound. “Sweet Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico?”
Islamaphone says
Gimli the dwarf has more of a clue:
https://www.newsmax.com/headline/rhys-davies-islam-offensive-insidious/2015/12/05/id/704691/
LB says
Gimli is my favorite character in LOTR and now I love him even more!
Also, a guy who played a character that fought off the invasion of orcs — a race that seeks to submit the world to its rule — has no right to virtue signal. What’s next? #OrcLivesMatter?
Check out more here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKJllZu1Osk
Westman says
Is this “Lone Ranger” syndrome? The mask and I are one. Only I can wear the mask and fight for the right, uhh, Left…..
mortimer says
Yeah… agree. He doesn’t *OWN* the role of Aragorn.
For pete’s sake, Viggo, it’s just a role. As a comparison, Mr. Mortensen, no actor *OWNS* the role of ‘Hamlet’.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“Linda Sarsour Posts Selfie on Private Jet While Complaining about ‘Injustice’”
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/05/08/linda-sarsour-vilified-for-posting-selfie-with-roger-waters-on-private-jet-extolling-personal-risk-for-standing-up-for-oppressed-palestinians/
Westman says
Imagine that! Playing the proxy victim can feather your nest and give you wings. As a famous physicist, Richard Feynman, once said with a wry smile, “it’s amazing how far you can get with BS.”
Ashley says
What say you, Boromir’s Horn?
Demsci says
And is Sean Bean also giving his opinion about Vox now?
Demsci says
What? Aragorn in the movie clearly rallies “Men of the West!” Although I realize it is rather insulting to compare Muslims with Orks, his coalition did fight a coalition of enemies from the east and the south who attacked the Western parts of the world in this story. Aragorn led in defense, not an offense.
Mortensen has a right to his opinion but not the right to give the opinion of Aragorn himself so to speak (I mean as if he were Aragorn and gave his opinion about Vox using his name).
He is clearly political correct and biased.
Mockingjay says
I do not think comparing muslims to orcs is insulting at ALL.
– As a matter of fact, I think Orcs are a most excellent metaphore for the ugly repulsiveness of jihadist muslims who absolutely relish in killing the defenseless and innocent, and who will destroy everything that is good and pure in this world if given the chance.
They truly are the forces of evil.
– Someday, even Hollywood actors will come to understand this.
When the armies of the enemy will trample Europe underfoot, they surely will all lament: “How has it come to this…?”
Rufluc says
I wholeheartedly agree with you Mockingjay, except that I do think the Orcs themselves wouldn’t take too kindly to being compared to Muslims LOL!
I really do hope one day Hollywood actors will accept the truth….but I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one. You see the trouble with those people is, they have their heads so far stuffed up their backsides that they are totally blinded to the truth of what is happening in the world today where the scourge of Islam is concerned. Because they’re all in the public domain, they all find it necessary to jump on the PC bandwagon and denounce everything and anything that relates to the criticism of Islam, or anything that can be vaguely construed as ‘racist’ (except that which insults white people of course).
They all live in Tinsel town in their gated/fenced mansions, protected by their security teams 24/7, and so are totally detached from reality. You know, the place where the likes of you and I live.
But yes, like you, I fear that the level of ignorance that many of these liberal snowflakes possess, as they bow down to their God of political correctness and self adoration, it is indeed very worrying, because by the time they do manage to accept any form of reality, it’ll all be far too late! So let the lamenting begin……..!
David M says
Orcs are slightly better looking than the average Salafi long bearded Muslim in a dress I would think.
Demsci says
Had much fun reading your answers and at times I see Afghanistan as MORDOR, teaming with Orcs.
kuriakose says
I think the muhameddans can be compared to the Corsairs of Umbar-fallen Numenorians fled to Umbar after being defeated by Gondor. Over time they attracted various outlaws and brigands from outlying settlements. They took to raiding along the southern coast of Gondor, intercepting merchant vessels and abducting women to bolster their dissident community. They were also slavers and would often seize a ship’s crew along with her cargo; if any resisted, they would be thrown overboard.
Sounds familiar? Looks like this ignoramus actor never really understood the book or the movie he acted in.
Fred Middleton says
Sean Bean was obviously the better actor in that film, Viggo is just a male model.
FYI says
The Lord of the rings is a far better work of fiction than the koran.
Sometimes when I visualize the Cognitively dissonant author of the koran,the image of Gollum comes to mind;You never know with Gollum whether he is up or down,lucid or incoherent.
Just like the author of the koran.
So ,the Lord of the Rings vs the koran:possible parallels…?
sauron …{Al} iLah {“the BEST of deceivers” k3:54}the pagan Arab god of the muslims
saruman the evil wizard…the “prophet” muhammed{APFh,allah prays for him}
jibreel…Gollum{like jibreel,tends to reside in a cave..and has insane rages and jealous tantrums}
orcs…islamic supremacists{demonic and stupid Abdools}
mordor..what the EU is turning into…
Also Gandalf had a magic horse called Shadowfax which is at least more plausible than muhammad’s Buraq
{A winged,flying horse-donkey with the head of a woman and a peacock tail:no one ever saw Buraq..let’s face it,muhammed didn’t either,even though he flew on it from mecca to Jerusalem to visit the mosque (that..haha.. didn’t exist at the time of muhammed) Koran 17 v 1}
Islamaphone says
‘Aragorn, a polyglot statesman who advocates knowledge and inclusion of the diverse races, customs and languages of Middle Earth’
Except orcs. He was a dead-set orcaphobe.
Wellington says
“Anti-immigrant,” “anti-feminist” and “Islamophobic.”
People using these words seriously should never be taken seriously. In fact, such people are, at best, fools; as worst, malevolent. I suspect this turkey, the subject of this article, is “merely” a fool.
Instructive how many fools the entertainment industry produces. Like cockroaches in a big city, they’re most everywhere. How annoying.
grthyjjk says
Those terms are merely buzzwords and dog-whistles they’re just programmed to throw around like the NPC’s they are.
Spiro says
He’s an actor who repeats lines written
For him
Who cares what he thinks
Savvy Kafir says
Pretty disappointing!
When Ben Affleck proved to be a politically correct ignoramus and vicious defender of Islam, it was really annoying, but not so surprising. But I thought maybe Viggo was made of better stuff. Alas! Just another Hollywood bimbo.
CRUSADER says
In Viggo’s defense, it’s not as if he knows NOTHING about Islam….
After all he did spend an entire movie reading a “GREEN BOOK” !!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56OxBMUh9v4
gravenimage says
Lord of the Rings actor upset over “anti-immigrant, Islamophobic” populists using his character “Aragorn” in a meme
…………………
The character Aragorn would have recognized evil. The witless actor who played him, apparently, not so much…
thebigW says
yeah well, ol’ Viggo THINKS he recognizes evil which is “Islamophobia” and “ultra nationalism” and “neo-fascism” (which only exist in his Cracker Jacks brain) and he seems all puffed up an’ righteous about it. Problem with people in the West today, it ain’t that they say they can’t see evil and there is no evil–it’s that they got it bass-ackward = they think it’s evil to be opposed to Muzzies.
TrueFreeThinker says
Peter Jackson’s character? What a complete moron. Of course a white leftist would say something so stupid and completely disregarding the person (J.R.R. Tolkien) that really made this character probably because he was white and a Christian.
These Hollywood fools have no idea how stupid they are and because so many people around the world worship these fools they clearly get an inflated self worth and become the most grandiose idiots on earth.
gravenimage says
+1
CRUSADER says
“The scandalous Rotherham case of 1,400 girls sexually assaulted by Muslim men while the establishment negligently sat by and did nothing out of fear of being branded “racist” wasn’t enough of a lesson. The assaults continued in even larger numbers against young girls, reaching a staggering 1 million by estimations.”
Seems that 1 million would be enough to get attention about it, that’s a whole lot of victims!
If there were only 0.1% of that figure who were spilling hot coffee on themselves, there’d be lots of press about it and a large corporation would have to make a big deal over it.
Meanwhile, WAR International exposes much on women being forced into modern slavery, otherwise known by the euphemism of “human trafficking”:
https://warinternational.org/understand-the-risks/
+++++++++
By the way, that connection to C S Lewis is rather epic.
Highly recommended is C S Lewis’ book “MERE CHRISTIANITY”.
It has so much to say. Quite a pithy read.
crawford421 says
Aragorn married Arwen — and she was forced to choose between an immortal life “in the West” with her ancestors and (some of) the angels of Aragorn and human mortality. But human mortality in Middle Earth ends with you going to eternity in the presence of the creator — Heaven. She only had this option because she was descended from the ONLY human-elf couple that existed before her and Aragorn.
Otherwise, there really wasn’t a multicultural society in Middle Earth, except maybe the town of Bree. The Rohirrim lived in Rohan, and would visit Gondor, but there wasn’t a “Little Rohan” neighborhood in Minas Tirith. The Southrons came to be close allies of Home or after Sauron was defeated, but they didn’t insist on their temples being built everywhere.
DP111 says
“It is even more ridiculous to use the character of Aragorn, a polyglot statesman who advocates knowledge and inclusion of the diverse races, customs and languages of Middle Earth, to legitimize an anti-immigrant, anti-feminist and Islamophobic political group,” he added.
Tolkien was deeply concerned with the threat that Islam posed to Christendom. It is clear that the threats to Middle Earth came from the south and east. Too the corsair ships were full of Arab pirates and soldiers. Also elephants
Hilaire Belloc friend of Tolkien, wrote in 1938:
“Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake off the domination of Europeans — still nominally Christian — and reappear as the prime enemy of our civilization? The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be. And for my part I cannot but believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of Islam”.
How right he was.
Mortensen simply reads the script given to him. He has no clue.
gravenimage says
Fine post, DP111.
CRUSADER says
“Tolkien,” a new biographical drama about the early and challenging life of the legendary author and English professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, better known as J.R.R. Tolkien, opened in theaters this weekend.
The Disney film, two years in the making, promises to draw fans and followers of the literary giant whose works inspired the record-breaking “Lord of the Rings” movie trilogy franchise, which to date has grossed nearly $3 billion worldwide.
Yet students of Tolkien – and anyone else who understands and appreciates the formative and foundational importance of faith in an individual’s life – will be sorely disappointed that the movie sidesteps and understates the role the author’s Christian faith played in his personal and professional development.
So, why would a motion picture that tells a person’s story ignore the very hinge on which the individual’s whole life swung?
According to the film’s director, Dome Karukosi: “Religion is so internal, it’s difficult to visualize. It’s like watching an encyclopedia.”
Karukoski explained that attempts to portray Tolkien’s faith fell flat, even suggesting those who saw scenes attempting to tell his spiritual side found the depictions “boring.” In the end, those parts of the movie didn’t make the final cut.
Tolkien’s life can no more be explained without his Christian faith than the history and miracle of America can be told and understood absent the influence and faith of the Founding Fathers.
The award-winning Finnish film director’s explanation is telling, primarily because it reveals an increasingly popular worldview, namely that faith is a very private thing and somehow detached from our everyday lives.
Sadly, it’s this perspective that’s leading to either the neutralizing or downright neutering of faith in the public square. What’s happened with “Tolkien” is similar to Hollywood’s treatment of Madeleine L’Engle’s “A Wrinkle in Time,” another Disney film released last year that deliberately excised the original author’s faith.
At the time, screenwriter Jennifer Lee defended the removal of the book’s Christian themes, saying: “I think there are a lot of elements of what she wrote that we have progressed as a society and we can move onto the other elements.”
J.R.R. Tolkien’s father died when he was just 4-years-old and his mother died when he was 12. He and his brother were raised by Father Francis Morgan, a Roman Catholic priest who was living in England. The two Tolkien boys celebrated Mass with the prelate each day.
Growing up with the influence of Father Morgan, and at such a transformative stage of the teenager’s life, was clearly foundational in major ways, yet the viewer of the new film is left to only guess how instrumental this influence really was.
The only reason Hollywood producers and audiences find thematic depictions of faith “boring” is because they’re unfamiliar with the dynamism of what true Christian faith is all about.
Christianity is not a static, rote recitation of dogma, as Hollywood often depicts it – it’s a vibrant and personal manifestation of the miraculous – the Word made flesh, as the Gospel writer John put it. It’s a lot more than silent, praying parishioners in pews or the sounds of sacred music echoing off cathedral walls.
As a Christian growing up in early 20th century England, Tolkien’s future, fantastical writings were largely inspired by what he read – including the Old and New Testaments. Again, the literary significance of the best-selling book of all time on Tolkien’s life journey is overlooked on the big screen.
J.R.R. Tolkien saw himself as a writer, not a pastor or theologian, but writers who are Christians often weave profound truths in with their words, a habit the Englishman openly acknowledged.
“We have come from God and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed, only by myth-making, only by becoming a ‘sub-creator’ and inventing stories, can Man ascribe to the state of perfection that he knew before the fall,” he said.
My favorite Tolkien observation stems from his study of storytelling, specifically why we’re drawn to tales of all types, whether true or fictional. A fairy tale, he noted, always starts out well, but turns negative and foreboding. Then the hero arrives, and the very bad thing suddenly becomes good.
In fact, the best-selling author even coined a word for the happy turn in a story. He called it a “eucatastrophe” – as in the joyful (eu) catastrophe. In other words, what first appears to be bad is often used by God for good.
I’m reminded of that insightful phrase and truth when Hollywood insists on secularizing profoundly Christian stories such as “Tolkien” for reasons of politics or profit. Tolkien’s life can no more be explained without his Christian faith than the history and miracle of America can be told and understood absent the influence and faith of the Founding Fathers.
In the end, the truth always finds a way out – especially the truth about the transforming and transcendent faith behind Tolkien’s literary genius.
(Fox News)
gravenimage says
Yes–I’ve heard this same criticism of the Tolkien film. Sad but unfortunately not surprising.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Tolkien, an ancient languages scholar and historian who worked on translating the Dead Sea scrolls, wanted to use the usual perjorative terms for his bad guys: ORCS = TURKS. But as he was working in Turkey, he had to use the euphemism. Would Aragorn really have wanted to integrate the diverse multi-cultural enrichment brought to Middle Earth by the Orcish hordes, spreading the proto-islamic peace and love? Doubtful at best, Viggo!
gravenimage says
+1
Naildriver says
One battle scene in LOR where a suicide bomber blows the wall to allow the invading orcs in was based on a historical event; where Muslims besieging a Christian fortress did the same upon a walls weak spot.
Jackson might not have intended this Islam vs. West struggle but it can certainly be read as such.
gravenimage says
Agreed.
Wordsmith says
Excuse him? “His” character? Aragon does not belong to him! Aragon was created and is forever owned by J. R. R Tolkein!!! The author of Lord of the Rings!!! (It was a book before a movie) Mortensen just pretended to be Aragon to get rich. This offends me as an author and fan! Tolkien created one of the greatest fantasy novels in history, which is a representation of World War 1! Tolkein fought in WW1, he saw the evil of the world and put it into his book.
That’s besides the point; the point is, Mortensen didn’t make Aragon, odds are Aragon made his career and Tolkein wrote his lines. He has no control over Aragon!!!!
infidel says
The best simily here is of orcs to Muslims. But even Orcs have more honor than Muslims for sure.