“Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,

Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,

Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,

One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne.

One Ring to rule them all.

One Ring to find them,

One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”

-The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien

The millions of gentle souls who treasure the fairy tales written by the above author would no doubt be horrified to learn that there was a War of the Ring, that their ancestors suffered and died in it, that it was won by the anonymous Dark Lord and his legion of successors and that they are among his loyal orks. Fortunately for their fragile minds they were found in the mists of youth and remain bound in the darkness of adulthood, cocooned in evil, adrift upon the soothing Sea of Lies.

The Lies that Bind Us is an open-ended exploration of the ingeniously layered falsehoods that misinform the moral foundations of the Greatest Lie Ever Told, how we came to the brink of the abyss and the many slain truths that might have been.