[The Green Ringwraith]

Actually, I've heard that Tolkien made the Ring to represent the machine.
I think that goes cause of this- man once had a chance to destroy it, but instead it has grown and comsumed us all. It now runs our daily lives and pollutes the world around us. But still, even thought we know what it does, we can't give it up because we've become so used to it, we don't know what we would do without it.
A society of Gollums, imagine that... *sigh*
That's my two bits, but don't stake my life on the fact about Tolkien saying the Ring represented the machine. That's just what I've heard.

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