Introduction

Before the Soviet Union fell, I heard that people were dressing up as Lord of the Rings characters renting hundreds of acres of woods as Middle Earth. The Soviet Union got wind of it and forbade it so that you were thrown in jail for dressing up like a hobbit - which was an attack on state socialism. And when Peter Jackson was asked why he didn't include that in his movie, he lamely said, we didn't have enough money,. But what did you, which is state socialism? You seeing that more and more these days? Yeah.