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"The World (of Men) [Originally: Mission of the Fellowship of the Nine] Stands On a Knife-Edge," Intoned (the Prophetess) the Lady Galadriel: "Just One (Wrong) Move to the Right or the Left and the Future of the World [Originally: The Mission] Will Fail!"

 Methinks we are presently living in such a time, in such a pivotal moment of human history...

"We Don't LIVE In Decent Times!" As Smeagol-Gollum Schooled His Hobbit Companions of the (Fellowship of the) Ring Compatriots As They Made Their Way Through the Aqueduct into Mordor (in the Jacksonesque/Wilde/Boyens Cinematic Rendition of J R R Tolkien's Epic 'Lord of the Rings' Trilogy)...

Gazing at America today - insofar as thing've started unfolding, anyhow - Gollum'd certainly be crawling for cover from the gaze of Trump, I mean Sauron ('s evil eye)... and then some!

'A woman [or man/child] who accepted as literally her own this extreme self-surrender would be an idolatress offering to a man what belongs only to God.' (The Four Loves, p.126.)

To any and all those who might perhaps be wondering whether C S Lewis could have anything at all  to say - based upon his past writings (which, after all, when all is said and done, is all we yet have available to us) - about events presently transpiring in, more correctly certain personae currently 'dominating proceedings' in, the most watched and anticipated/feared election result probably in global history...   Coz' I'm sorry to have to say, folks, the aforementioned is precisely the sort of uncritical, sycophantic, obsequious submission we've been seeing from Donald J Trump worshippers at his various rallies... Dear God, he's actually been receiving the sort of mindless worship there that traditionally is reserved for the deity... Interesting that this is precisely the way in which Germans generally - even and especially supposed 'Bible-believing' Christians - in 1930's Nazi Germany bowed and scraped to Adolf Hitler, and indeed generally saw him ...