From Tolkien to Collodi, in the courtroom the challenge of fantasy quotes

From Jrr Tolkien to Carlo Collodi Lord of the rings to the adventures of Pinocchio. The information of the ministers of justice and internal, Carlo Nordio and Matteo planted, provided the ground for a challenge with strokes of Quotes from fantastic novels. Fantasy, in the case of the author of the ring saga, more precisely ‘fantastic for boys’, in the case of the puppet’s father. A duel that begins well before 12.15, a time when the ministers take their seats in the benches of the government of the Montecitorio classroom.

It is necessary to take a step back on 2 February, the National Directorate of Fratelli d’Italia. Arianna Meloni, head of the party political secretariat, makes use of the British writer and linguist: “Giorgia is our Frodo”, the protagonist of the saga, “and we are the company of the ring”. And again: “The ring is heavy, we must help her in the effort to bring it without ever wear it”. The reference is to the ring to which hunting in the book is and which, while giving immense power, ‘consumes’ slowly but inexorably the one who wears it, to cause physical and moral brutalism. As is the case at Gollum, Small and repugnant custodian creature of the ring, once Hobbit but then forced to live in solitude for fear of losing their “treasure”.

The sense of the combination is quite immediate: Giorgia Meloni has the responsibility of administering a great power without getting corrupted by it. During the year -end conference, the premier uses another comparison: “Great responsibilities correspond to great powers”. In that case the quote was of Stan Lee, creator of Spiderman. Returning to the information: Riccardo Magi, secretary of Più Europe, first reconnected to Arianna Meloni’s quote. In its reading, however, the novel does not have a happy ending. Frodo-Meloni, in the Magi version, would have been corrupted to the point of the ring as to free Sauron, The abortion, the dark gentleman of Mordor.

That is, Osama Njeem Almasri, the Libyan torturer first arrested and then released and repatriated. “If as Arianna Meloni says, her sister is Frodo, then the ring of power gave her head and freed Sauron Almasri, who is the head of a battalion of orc torturers of children in Libya,” says Magi in the classroom. The debate, in the afternoon, moves to the Senate and here is Matteo Renzi who resumes the fantasy quote. As a good Tuscan, however, the leader of Italia Viva has other cultural references at heart: “Meloni’s sister had indicated the book to be read.

But the book to read is not so much the lord of the rings, as Pinocchio “, Renzi warns:” Meloni would like to make a fairy, but there is the little man of butter, the one who guides the cart and brings the children out of the school, in the country of toys, where they become donkeys. This is Giorgia Meloni: you thought you had found the iron lady, you found the man of butter. “And then, asking the president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa to want to grant him a few seconds to conclude the intervention:” If not it Fa, it will be her Mangiafuoco “.