@$#% my daughter says: where Sauron's Ol'dear went wrong...

The Eye of SteveThe topic of this morning's breakfast was criminal psychology as it pertains to The Lord of the Rings. More specifically, the question the Wee'Un #1 presented to the table for consideration was this: Why did Sauron's mum call him Sauron*?The thrust of her ensuing thesis was that anyone with a name like Sauron was pretty much guaranteed to turn out a bad egg. There was room for argument both ways, but we all agreed that had Sauron actually been named Steve things would have been very different.My daughter was of the opinion that Sauron would probably have turned out alright had he been a Steve. I disagreed and put forth my own argument that had Sauron been a Steve, he would probably have turned out the same way with the difference that, in this parallel Middle Earthiverse, nobody would have taken him seriously until it was already too late."What's all that ruckus back there in the mountains?""Oh, that's just Steve. You know Steve, he's always up to some scheme or other.""Heh, yeah. He's a funny bugger that Steve. Remember his shenanigans with those rings?" &c...I went further to suggest that had Adolf Hitler been named something like Mordok Prince of Chaos  the Allies might not have been quite as passive during the 30's as they were. But then my daughter asked who Adolf Hitler was, and I realized that was a topic for another day.Not that it would have shaken my daughter resolve that there was simply no way in her mind that a Steve, or a Trevor, or...
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