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Default liberalism, PC... maybe just stupidity run amok

"Tolkien lore led a Texas boy to suspension after bringing his "one ring" to school.

Kermit Elementary School officials called it a threat when the 9-year-old boy, Aiden, in a playful act of make-believe, told a classmate he could make him disappear with a ring forged in fictional Middle Earth's Mount Doom.

"It sounded unbelievable," the boy's father, Jason Steward, told the Daily News. He assures his son "didn't mean anything by it."

The Stewards had just watched "The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies" days earlier, inspiring Aiden's imagination that he had in his possession, the one ring to rule them all.

"Kids act out movies that they see. When I watched Superman as a kid, I went outside and tried to fly," Steward said.

Aiden claimed Thursday he could put a ring over his head and make him invisible like Bobo Baggins, who stole Gollum's precious in J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy series "Lord of the Rings."

"I assure you my son lacks the magical powers necessary to threaten his friend's existence," he later wrote in an email. "If he did, I'm sure he'd bring him right back.""

Unbelievable. SMH
 
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