In the second chapter of Tolkien’s third book in the Lord of The Rings trilogy, the character of Eomor gives a description of the new evil power of Saruman. In this description, he creates an image of a man who was “a hooded and cloaked man” very similar to “Gandalf”(30). This description creates a relationship between the good and evil characters of Gandalf and Saruman, and rather than contrasting them as two separate entities, Tolkien creates a gray area between the two characters, implying that good and evil are not that different. Relating to totalitarian regimes, although it may seem like great evils like the Soviet Union are extremely different, they may come from or have very similar actions to that of regimes that are viewed as good. In the era of Tolkien, the United States had many actions, such as the use of nukes or camps for the Japanese, which are inherently bad for a society. These actions are only justifiable because of the end goal of the United States in chasing which was considered as good. With this realization, totalitarian regimes can spawn from efforts of good, slowly becoming corrupted overtime. In Zuboff’s book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, she mentions that the current age of technology was also founded with positive intent, with technological kingpins promising that “Machine learning, he says, will do everything from curing blindness to saving animals from extinction”(253).  However, this technology has shifted into an age of overwhelming control of the internet, with the potential for another totalitarian regime to rise in what Zuboff calls “The Big Other”. Even in the modern era, groups that promise a revolutionary product of society can often lead to corruption, slowly morphing into a totalitarian regime. Tolkien blurring the line between good and evil using the characters of Gandalf and Saruman is a direct allusion to how this can happen, and how it is important to beware of groups that promise the perfect utopia.