Forbidden

War has matured: The game is nuclear terror. Weapons have matured: The watchword is, Daisy Cutters. Strategies have matured: The lie is cultural 'freedom.' Objectives have matured: Empires flirting with genocide. The story, Lord of Darkness, Lord of the Rings, comprises two chapters of the novel, Winning without Victory, by Rolf A. F. Witzsche, which is Episode 3 of the series of novels, The Lodging for the Rose. The series is designed to explore the great renaissance principle, the Principle of Universal Love, the foundation for civilization. The fictional story, Lord of Darkness, Lord of the Rings, plays in the mid-1980s. In unfolds as a dialog assessing the present danger to civilization, juxtaposing the modern world-empire quest with JRR Tolkien's mythical saga the Lord of the Rings, written in metaphor by a man who has experienced World War I, World War II, and the Cold War.