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Goebbels worked his craft in much more concealed fashion. Instead of spreading lies so thick that nobody can believe anything anymore, which opens the gates to hell, Goebbels simply disowned the mentality of his victims, he 'privatized' their conscience into his own hands and told society what to think. Tolkien assigned this process to Saruman, the wizard corrupted by fear. What he fears is the age of unfolding ideas, the power of the human intellects, that which Gandalf represents. One way of dealing with this threat is to disown the consciousness of society.
The Grima Wormtongue process
Saruman owned the consciousness of Theoden in the same manner. He owned it via a privatization process that Tolkien called, "Grima Wormtongue." Tolkien gave this name to a man in Saruman's employ, assigned to Theoden. In the functional sense, Grima wasn't a man. He represents a process in which Wormtongue operated as a tool, similar to the modern mass-media. Theoden became mentally disowned by this process.
That is what I think Theoden's name actually relates to. The name describes the functionality of the process by which society became victimized. The name defines Theoden as a victim of theosophy; a victim boxed in into the den of his master.
In metaphor, Theoden represents the broad masses of society. He represents them well. Most people today concede to some degree that society is slowly being brainwashed by the media, and that public opinion thereby becomes slanted. Oh, if this were only true. The reality, however, is more to the fact that there exists no longer any such thing as a genuine public opinion, representing the outcome of a genuine free human consciousness. Like in case of Theoden, the mentality of nearly the whole of society has been privatized. What goes for public opinion in the modern world is but a 'press release' authorized by the owners of the Grima process that has privatized the thinking of society. The process has drained away the humanity of mankind and replaced it with authorized responses, all politically correct, all functionally useless, all strategically aligned as needed for the master's purpose.
You don't believe me, right? Then, just watch the second movie of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and look at the face of Theoden. In his face you will see the face of a living dead. This is the face of modern society. There is no life left that's anything much to speak of. We are all boxed in by the mental regimes of countless manipulative theosophies that cover every department of life from the social domain to the political domain, from the scientific domain to the environmental domain, and from the financial world to the military world. One shiny example of this trap is our modern doctrine for assuring security in the nuclear armed world, that we call "Mutually Assured Destruction." For fifty years we have been stuck in this trap and have found no exit from it; or should I say that we have not been allowed to find an exit, while that "assurance" that we've locked ourselves into, is in the long run destined to come true.
How deep the Grima privatization of the thinking of society can go is illustrated by the 'achievements' of Dr. Joseph Goebbels, who took a nation that grew up on the shoulders of some of the greatest humanist giants in history, like Friedrich Schiller, Ludvig van Beethoven, Gottfried Leibnitz, Carl Gauss, and turned that society into stone killers who were able to manually put millions of helpless and defenseless people to death, often in the most gruesome manner. Likewise, the fire-bombing of entire cities, that was 'achieved' by men of a noble society, was achieved in much the same manner, and so was the atomic bombing that followed.
None of that should have ever happened, but it did. Indeed, none of the wars of the last centuries should have happened. They could have been avoided. They should have never been thought of, nor would they have been thought of if the thinking of society had not been privatized in order to make the most impossible, in humanist terms, happen.
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