Oropher the 1st Sindar-King Vs. Ogari-God Priest....

Good Afternoon from Philadelphia....

   Today I heard a Youtube-Video from GeekZone, whom I'm subscribed to, where he deals with the Lord of the Rings, abbreviated as LOTR for short.
   He covered the History of Oropher, who is the Father of Thranduil and the 2nd-King of the Sindar-Elves of Mirkwood.
   Now, what I'm going to do is embed this video here where you can listen to it and get the Foundation of what caused Me to make this post right now and get it up and out to You.
   Because it is a great compare-contrast with all kinds of real-world relevance for what is going on and why, for Black-Americans in particular. And it caught my attention where King-Oropher, due to everything that had happened leading up to him becoming the 1st-King of the Sindar-Elves. He makes a series of decisions that ultimately lead to his death.
   But, as I have typed about before, race-&-place, and the history of said race-&-place, truly does matter.
   And while King-Oropher's decisions do ultimately lead to His Death...!?
   They set a Foundation for His People that ultimately becomes the Bulwark on which they stand and are able to go forward with, where it reminded me of Ogari-God Priest and why he has been doing what he has been doing, regarding the War for Unification of Nu-Sumar, and the measures he has taken as well as authorized amongst His Followers and Factions.
   So before I go any further, check out GeekZone's Youtube channel and make sure you Like the Video and Subscribe if LOTR is your thing or if just being able to hear fantasy-based history is something that interest you.
   Another thing?
   GeekZone gives the Lore and does give some of his own thoughts, but what caused this post was due to the realization on my part. That he wasn't and isn't really there to dissect and discuss EXACTLY WHY King-Oropher made the choices he made and ultimately made the last choice he would make, in the midst of a battlefield, which would lead to his death.
   His Video does give enough straight-forward, raw historical-information, but the breakdown of specifics and exact-details of WHY, King-Oropher did what he did, where on the Surface...!?
   He appears to doom himself, and ON THE PERSONAL-LEVEL, he did.
   Because it led to His Death, however...?
   I understood completely why he did what he did and I saw the long-term benefits for His Race and the Place that they'd finally settled, thus this post was created, SO!?
   Here is the Video and I'll come back on the other side of it with My Typed Commentary and Connect all the Dots...!   

Oropher the Father of Thranduil
Lord of the Rings Lore
​By GeekZone

   So in this video?
   We're told how the Sindar-Elves are constantly, consistently, attacked by others.
   The attack by other elves in his younger-years is most definitely grounds enough to CREATE AN ISOLATIONIST, but did you notice WHAT WAS MISSING...?
   At NO POINT DO THE VALAR STEP IN AND STOP THE ATROCITIES. 
  This lays the grounds for why they would IGNORE THE VALAR'S CALL to come back to their realm when?
   The Valar had consistently let them get wiped out and attacked previously!
   So why bother listening to them now.
   Oropher ends up having to settle in with members of the same group of Elves who destroyed his homeland and murdered large chunks of His Race, I'm neither shocked nor surprised that he eventually decoded that he didn't want to stay with them, regardless of whether or not THIS GROUP of Elves, Noldor, weren't the same bloodthirsty-bastards as the ones who did all the slaughtering.
   Again?
   There is NO MENTION that the crazed Noldor-Elves who kept chasing after the Silmarils, were EVER CONFRONTED AND ATTACKED AND STOPPED!?!?!?!
   By OTHER NOLDOR-ELVES.
   Now this is critically-important!
   Because what it shows is that everybody knows this ONE GROUP WITHIN THE NOLDOR HAVE LOST THEIR MINDS!
   And they ATTACK ANYONE IF THEY THINK OR KNOW YOU HAVE ONE OF THESE SILMARILS.
    Whether they are justified or not IS IRRELEVANT and they are ALLOWED, to do this shit.
   All of this makes it easy to see why Oropher becomes the way that he is and eventually attempts TO DISTANCE HIMSELF FROM ALL OF THIS.
   He eventually gains a following.
   Leaves the Noldor-controlled city-region with those followers, because he's already seen that Noldor will allow other Noldor to run amuck and THEY WON'T TAKE UP ARMS TO STOP THEM. So then who knows when the Noldor offering sanctuary will turn their coats and decide to sell them out or simply ALLOW for WHATEVER TO HAPPEN TO THEM.
   Now...?
   When I heard this it reminds Me VERY MUCH of the present-day situation and LONG-STANDING HISTORY of Black-Americans here in America. Of course OUR ORIGINS are far worse and the atrocities are nowhere near as detailed as THEY SHOULD BE AND COULD BE. Many things are still not spoken about nor resolved, such as the mass-experimentations by both the White-American scientific and medical communities.
   This DIRECTLY TIES INTO THE CHARACTER OF OGARI-GOD PRIEST.
   Where he is the Founder and Creator of Nu-Sumar and initially was simply known as the Sun-Emperor!
   But THE REALITY IS, he comes from Earth and is Priest-13, where his journey to Underworld-Realm under the direction and tutelage of Dr. Charles Pagan. Is all about Dr. Pagan TEACHING HIM HOW TO USE AND MASTER THE POWERS THAT DR.PAGAN HAS GIVEN HIM.
   So if You are under the impression that the OG-storyline of Priest-13 and the subsequent storylines of Byron Maxwell and Tansoba Ellis, have somehow ceased to exist and/or I've abandoned them?
   Nothing could be further from the Truth.
   The CORRECT CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER FOR MY STORYVERSE AND ITS STORYLINES TIES DIRECTLY INTO UNDERWORLD-REALM.
   And Priest-13's Foundation.
   Is rooted in Nu-Sumar and what he did there first.
   What does ALL OF THAT MEAN...?     

   He is one of the 13-Slaves that Dr. Pagan subjected to the Tanis Dragon-Dynasty of Underworld-Realm's, Human-Modification Program.
   Turning him into an Altered-Human with powers and abilities capable of fighting, winning, and surviving, life in any of Underworld-Realms various sub-dimensions.
   Priest-13, Ogari-God Priest?
   Has a LOT in common with Oropher, King-Oropher.
   Where a central-theme for both is all about self-sufficiency, autonomy, and the ability to be able to HAVE THE POWER TO DECIDE WHEN AND IF THEY WANT/NEED TO INTERACT WITH OTHERS.
   King-Oropher, lost his life, because HE DECIDED to attack Mordor's gates UNDER HIS OWN BANNER AND DECISION.
    I will be the FIRST TO TYPE that this was STUPID.
   However I will ALSO TYPE that he did so with THE INTENT TO MAKE IT CLEAR TO EVERYONE THAT THEY WERE NO LONGER GOING TO BE LOOKED AT AS INFERIORS AND SUBORDINATES TO ALL OTHER POWERS ASSEMBLED.
   What HE DID was the reason why I CREATED THE WORD-TERM CONCEPT, of Milpol.
   MILITARILY?
   His forces were poorly armed and inferior.
   And I'm certain he understood that his decision NOT TO INVEST IN MILITARY-DEVELOPMENT HAD BEEN A PROBLEM. And now because of it, he was being told that he would have to COME UNDER the very same people WHO'D NEVER BEEN PUNISHED FOR THEIR CRIMES AGAINST HIS PEOPLE.
   From A POLITICAL-STANDPOINT?
   From AN IDEALOGICAL-STANDPOINT?
   Totally.
   UNACCEPTABLE.
   And this is where STAKES AND AN UNDERSTANDING OF THOSE STAKES?
   Is critical.
   Mirkwood?
   His Kingdom?
   WAS JUST THAT, a kingdom.
   They were EQUAL.
   To all parties involved, AT LEAST, by TITLE, by NAME.
   However...?
   His DECISION to NOT ACKNOWLEDGE AND INVEST IN MILITARY-DEVELOPMENT?
   Had now caught up to Him and those who helped him rule.
   THEIR BELIEF of Isolationism, has a FUNDAMENTAL NEED FOR A STRONG ARMY WITH CUTTING-EDGE, BLEEDING-EDGE, MILITARY-DEVELOPMENT.
    Simply so THEY CAN MAINTAIN THEIR ABILITY TO STAY AS ISOLATIONIST.
    Now note that typing that...?
   Will require other areas to have to step-up so that THEY CAN ACHIEVE SUCH A NECESSITY, which means they would HAVE TO DEVELOP A SKILLED AND SUCCESSFUL INTELLIGENCE-NETWORK, along the lines of renown sci-fi examples like the Romulans of Star Trek and even the Cardassians, also of Star Trek. Just so they can KNOW what everyone else has, MILITARY-WISE, and what weapons, armor, etc!
   Is out there and could be used against them.
   King-Oropher?
   CORRECTLY SAW, that Sauron was going to become a massive problem if left unchecked, but since he didn't do the Work of ACKNOWLEDGING that HIS DECISION to lead and rule an Isolationist-kingdom, meant that they could only BE THAT WAY for AS LONG AS THEY COULD KEEP OTHERS OUT.
   Note? 
   Japan was forced by the United States to open up trade with them. AND IT WAS DONE UNDER THREAT OF CANNON-FIRE FROM ADMIRAL PERRY'S BLACK-SHIPS.
   Note?
   The Qing-Dynasty of China was forced into Unequal-Treaties and the Opium Wars when it could not stop the British-Empire from INTENTIONALLY DUMPING OPIUM WITHIN THEIR COUNTRY TO OFFSET THE BRITISH'S TRADE DEFICIT WITH THE QING.
   This is a very real issue where the moment I heard GeekZone talking about what King-Oropher DECIDED TO DO at the Gate of Mordor?
   I understood that King-Oropher HAD MADE THE DECISION to MILITARILY FAIL.
   BUT POLITICALLY SUCCEED.
   He was FULLY-AWARE HE WAS NOT GOING TO SURVIVE.
   But it would, HE WOULD SERVE AS AN EXAMPLE that if His People WANTED TO BE TREATED AS EQUALS?
   Then they would have to understand that THEY HAVE TO BE PREPARED FOR WAR/S and make sure that they are at the very least UP TO MODERN-STANDARDS, so as to avoid milpol-blunders like what he was now faced with.
   It was their POOR MILITARY-TECHNOLOGY that put Him and His Army right back where THEY'D WORKED TIRELESSLY TO GET AWAY FROM!
    ...Being under the Authority of Others.
   This is something that resonates VERY HEAVILY WITH MYSELF AND MY PEOPLE, as Black-Americans. But it is also something that holds deep-meaning to Priest-13/Ogari-God Priest.
   The LOSS OF AUTONOMY?
   The LOSS OF AUTHORITY?
   SELF-SUFFICIENCY?
   And then BEING AT THE MERCY, THE WHIM, OF OTHERS, WITH A LONG-HISTORICAL FAILURE OF FAIRNESS BY THOSE VERY SAME PEOPLE, TOWARDS YOU AND YOURS...?
   It is a Nightmarish-Uncertainty.
​   That nobody willingly tolerates....