It all makes sense now. The only way to Save the world, if I'm interpreting this right, is to drop the corrupt bankers into a volcano. Or their rings.

Might not be far wrong, but I doubt December. Originally Tolkien started writing a fantasy legend (the Silmarillion). It was then expanded upon and eventually led onto the Hobbit. The Lord of the Rings came afterwards but was originally going to be another Hobbit story. However the story changed. But what had changed in Tolkien's life? The Second World War had only just ended by the time Tolkien was writing the LotR. There are obvious references to dictatorship and oppression that were probably based on the actual facts of the war. History tends to repeat itself so if there is a 3rd World War then it will probably be against a dictator.

J.R.R. Tolkien had intended, with LOTR, to do for Britain and its people what composer Richard Wagner had done for Germany and Germans with his Ring Cycle: pull together bits and pieces of extant folklore to write an origin myth. The only part of it I can think of offhand that's an allegory is the destruction of Isengard. It's an allegory for the Industrial Revolution and how it destroyed the peaceful, agrarian life of the British Isles. Also, your dad needs to lay off the pipeweed.

I wanna smoke pot with your dad

He speaks the truth.

That sounds more serious than a mid-life crisis! It sounds like he may need to talk to a professional.

In a couple of years, the OP will be able to look back, laugh and say "Remember that time when Dad..." There could be much worse!

Well, he right about the world ending on Dec 21 2012. Lol.

Am i the only one who thinks that your dad has a amazing imagination and a awsome out look on the current economic situation?

Sit the **** down