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Tarlonniel
Since: Apr, 2012

Isn't it weird how the Horde of Alien Locusts is depicted as one of the scariest and evilest (when sapient) types of villains in fiction, and yet it's also the one humanity could most easily be accused of itself? For example, here is a copied and pasted literature entry from the Humans Through Alien Eyes Example List:
Tolkien's unfinished book The Notion Club Papers* Which can be read in The History of Middle-earth: At one point a man experimenting with astral projection techniques (which allow him to travel through time and space and see other planets) comes across a place where what seems like a giant anthill spreads across the countryside, polluting and ruining it. He's shocked to realise he's actually seeing the (sped-up) history of Oxford.