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Don’t let Brexit take the Tory out of Tolkien
By Niall Ferguson (original source The Boston Globe)
You really know your political career is in trouble when people start comparing you to Gollum.
Poor Theresa May was on the wrong end of some Tolkien-inspired satire last week, when the actor Andy Serkis released a spoof video with the title “LEAKED: Footage from Inside No. 10 Downing Street!” Serkis, who played Gollum in Peter Jackson’s film adaptations of “The Lord of the Rings,” had the inspired idea of combining the characters of Britain’s prime minister and Tolkien’s cadaverous, covetous, conflicted villain.
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