THE 11TH BEST CONSERVATIVE MOVIE OF THE LAST 25 YEARS: You knew it was coming, but this is something special — easily among the best Corner posts of the last 25 years: “Largely filmed before 9/11, they seemed perfectly pitched for the post-9/11 world. The debates over what to do about Sauron and Saruman echoed our own disputes over the Iraq War. (Think of Wormtongue as Keith Olbermann.) When Frodo sighs, ‘I wish none of this had happened,’ Gandalf’s response speaks to us, too: ‘So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.’” Frodo = George Bush, Gandalf = Dick Cheney. Got it. [The Corner]