https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeKidp-iWo
“The Way It Is” is a song by American rock group Bruce Hornsby and the Range. It was released in July 1986 as the second single from their debut album, The Way It Is. The song topped the charts in the US, Canada and the Netherlands in 1986, and peaked inside the top twenty in such countries as Australia, Ireland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Written by Bruce Hornsby, it made explicit reference to the Economic Opportunity Act, also known as the 1964 Poverty Act, as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The problem is literacy, the reader of the book, the audience of the film. People don’t comprehend “rings of power” and what too much power does to leadership of any cult media system, religion, storybook, etc. People who think waging war and using power to crush the little people of the world is goodness have a massive problem comprehending stories and lessons.
The world was already being gaslit by clergy long before Tolkien and James Joyce were born, clergy who convince people fiction is non-fiction. Tolkien was trying to make the fiction even more fictiony to get the point across what clergy was dong to the entire world throughout history.