How many times have we heard this song, "My Precious", "My Money?" We have heard it in the halls of finance, sung even by men an women of great means, and by society who has enslaved itself to property of countless types, and to aggregates of 'value' laid up in large and small portfolios, all labeled "My Precious."

In the name of "My Precious" the entire world economic system is presently hovering near the precipice of a world-wide economic catastrophe. That's where the Gollum has its brightest hour. At this very precipice, in the chasms of Mt. Doom where the ring needs to be destroyed, the Gollum wrests the ring from Frodo and holds it high in triumph, crying "My Precious, My Precious" even as it takes one step too far and slips, and falls into the chasm, ring and all.

In this sense the Gollum foreshadows the collective doom of all who have given their name to the process that the Gollum represents. Tolkien also gave the Gollum a second name that is appropriate here. Its second name is Smeagol-- Smeagol the Spiegel (mirror in German) in which we can see an image of ourselves. Tolkien was a linguist who had been employed for some time as Assistant Lexicographer of the New English Dictionary. I love the metaphors that he has built into his names. Except what do we see in this Spiegel, in this mirror, that the Gollum represents. We don't see anything in it that is in any way human. We see a process that represents Adam Smith, a process of greed based economics, an early type of synarchism, and as LaRouche points out, historically, Adam Smith was never a friend of America. Adam's pig was designed to destroy America.

The Gollum accurately portrays this process. It is not a creature of Saruman, the synarchist. The Gollum is a creature of Sauron.

The gollum became what it became, by the power of the ring. It serves the ring. The Gollum was captured by Sauron's forces, and tortured (a modern type of education), and was then let go to seek out the ring, to bring it back to Sauron in order to serve the centralization of all power in his hand. Sauron wan't the ring back on his 'hand.' The Gollum doesn't know that it serves that purpose. It thinks it serves itself. Only on rare occasions does it gain a glimpse of the purpose it was 'trained' for, and it hates what it sees, and fights it, unsuccessfully.

In historic terms the Gollum process was created before Lord Shelburne became a synarchist. The Gollum is a pig of Sauron, operating under the historic name of Adam Smith. It still does operate under this name, the name for greed based economics, and it is highly influential, I might add.

The centralization of financial power into private hands is far advanced in America and is now consuming the world. The deeply hidden success story of Adam's pig started in 1875 with the passing of the Specie Resumption Act by the U.S. Congress, which took away the nation's currency. The second success of the pig was the creating of the U.S. Federal Reserve as a private central bank for shareholder profits. This event, written into law in 1913 by another act of Congress, took away the nation's sovereign control over its currency, and put it into the hands of private power, for profit. The American Eagle, thereby, had been turned into a Vulture. The universal income tax became law in the same year, to feed to Vulture. In the following year, World War I was started, which had been long in the setup stage with the goal to prevent the economic development of the Eurasian continent that many nations had been working towards. World War I clearly served the designs of private central power, which later also financed Hitler.

Humanity has not recovered from these 'successes' by Adam's pig. Roosevelt worked around it, but even he never really dealt with the pig itself, of private central banking empires that continue to have a choke-hold on the whole of humanity.

In the saga the Gollum follows Frodo, the ring bearer. It even offers to aid Frodo, and it does aid him in his quest to take the ring back into the land of Sauron, the land of Mordor, the realm of the total centralization of private financial power. The Gollum becomes Frodo's (society's) self-imposed companion until the very end, at which the Gollum destroys itself together with the ring.

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Stories about War from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche