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No, Helms Deep didn't represent this war. It represented something else. It represented another process, one perhaps that has not yet fully played itself out. The type of this battle can be found reflected in Tolkien's naming of the Beast-men in this battle, the Uruk-hai, an ancient force (uhr in German) of the hydrogen fusion process turned into bomb. Tolkien states a force of ten-thousand of these. That is what we face today. That is the real face of the battle at Helm's Deep. "We are the Uruk-hai. We are the Uruk-hai." they cant. 'Come down and surrender.' 'We are the synarchists, resistence is futile.' 'We are the Americans!' we say today. 'We have the atomic bombs and are crazy enough to use them! Lay yourselves into the dirt and yield to our will!'
It appears that Tolkien is warning us, that even if it is possible to free society from the privatization of its mentality, many ancient axioms will remain, and we may yet continue to seek safety in the nuclear armed world by boxing ourselves in with the doctrine of "Mutually Assured Destruction" from which only a miracle can save us.
The dynamics of the modern nuclear war game are just about equal in size to match the battle at Helms Deep. At Helms Deep a force of ten-thousand beast-men besiege the world of men. These ten-thousand may represent the ten-thousand nuclear bombs that might have been planned around the time when the writing of the Lord of the Rings was completed, which now apparently exist. Against the massed fury of these bombs no conventional defense is possible. The first test of such a bomb evaporated 80,000,000 tones of earth and hurled it into the astrosphere from where it rained down its death over a large area hundreds of square miles wide. Even the best conventional defense will never be more than just a helm's deep against that. LaRouche once proposed the only possible strategic defense system that can be created, based on new physical principles, to be jointly developed by the whole world, to protect all nations. As one might suspect, that proposal was rejected by the privatized consciousness of society.
The nuclear terror metaphor at Helms Deep sheds some light, however, on the possible metaphor for the operations of Saruman. In the saga Saruman, the corrupted wizard, is creating that new kind of 'army,' the most powerful army, cobbled together deep in the deep chasms of his realm. He created a force on a scale that has never been seen before, that supersedes even the forces of Sauron. The new force is by all accounts invincible. It is said in the saga that this army has only one purpose, to end the existence of the world of men for all times to come. That purpose has never been denounced in the real world. The depopulation objective has never been retracted.
In Tolkien's saga, Gandalf the White comes to the rescue at Helms Deep, in the final moment before the inevitable defeat occurs. He comes to the rescue with the massed forces of all the realms of men, brining together the whole of humanity as it were. That turns the tide to victory. Saruman, thereby becomes defeated. Saruman also becomes logistically defeated. But can we dare to dream that tall? Will we get out of the nuclear weapons trap that easily? I think Tolkien is right when he answers, yes, we can achieve that freedom. Who would hinder us if the whole of humanity decided to free itself from the nuclear weapons nightmare? Who could possibly hinder that resolve that comes with a return to sanity? Still, Tolkien also cautions, that when this battle will be won, we still won't have won the war. The war goes on until all battles have been won, even though this single battle seems almost insurmountable. There is no such thing as the battle of all battles.
In his saga Tolkien presents in many ways a history that has not yet been, that might be, but that also might not be. In the saga Saruman's (nuclear) force does not approach swiftly on the back of steeds or born on wings. It approaches slowly, steadily, with the momentum and precision of a finely tuned machine, or the unyielding resolve of stubborn men. One thing is certain. The force is in motion. In modern times the nuclear arsenals have been dug out of their strong-boxes of strategic defense, probably all over the world, where they had been kept hidden away as weapons of last resort, which have now been put on the shelf for theatre deployment. They are in motion and soon Helms Deep will be besieged.
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