The New Hobbit Hole

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Boy am I bummed out! I have been reading the JoeEveryman and Commonsense threads, and the thread about the fringe Freeper who killed a cop and was killed in return in Ohio! I haven't seen so much dirty linen being washed in public since I worked at the Walt Disney World IT shop next to the WDW laundry!

Hair, was the Dan who dissed you Dan from Michigan?

[Corin Stormhands]

Sigh...I've been digging through files since Friday. I've found everything I need except for Corin Jrs. Birth Certificate. They have to have it for football (proof of age and all that). I have mulitple copies in a file...somewhere.

But, I did find my Freshman Research Paper. Or most of it. As I recall I loaned it to a guy the next year and never saw my bibliography again (I'm fairly certain however, that the professor saw it again...).

Anyway the paper was "Christ-like Symbolism in The Lord of the Rings." Now, let's all remember that I was only 18 (not that there's anything wrong with that). But I did get an "A."

I won't post the whole thing, but the following is for your reading "enjoyment." (or is it merriment?)

The quest is to destroy the "One Ring," and to complete this task Tolkien combines Gandalf, Aragorn and Frodo into a composite hero to overtake the "antichrist" (Sauron), who is seeking the power of the Ring for his own purposes. The royal family that once ruled Middle Earth has yielded to the temptation of Sauron. Some scholars have likened this to the fall of man in the garden of Eden when Adam, unwilling to be limited, aspired to the godlike. The fall of the royal family echose the fall of Israel. Gandalf has the power, Aragorn has the kingly status, and through Frodo Tolkien suggests that the world is saved by grace as humble redemptive suffering...

...The major parallels between Frodo and Christ come in the "echoes of the passion." In Frodo's first captivity he was stripped and beaten by the Orcs which parallels the arrest and flogging of Christ. In his second captivity he is driven along the road and stumbles from exhaustion as Christ fell from exhaustion as he bore his cross to Calvary. In the Land of Mordor Frodo suffers many of the agonies which Christ suffered upon the cross. In an attempt to escape Frodo jumps from a bridge and falls into thorns which are parallel to the crown of thorns placed upon Christ's head. The water in the Land of Mordor was undrinkable as was the vineagar given to Christ when both of the redeemers thirsted. The biggest agony born by either was the weight of the symbol of evil which placed a tremendous strain of both physical and spiritual nature upon them.

Talk amongst yourselves....(do you think it was a "mercy grade?")...don't answer that...

But what I wanted to find was this quote from Tolkien (Harold Lindsell, ed., "J.R.R. Tolkien," Christianity Today, (28 Sept., 1973) - Tolkien said, "I am a Christian and of course what I write will be from that essential viewpoint."

Well, I hope this at least gives you some chuckles this evening...

[kcpopps]

I rented it this week too. I was extremely disappointed because the DVD I rented was 4:3 and not in the widescreen theater dimensions. What were they thinking??? I just hated losing all that screen area in those magnificent scenes!

The video store guy told me all of the rentals were like that but you could buy a wdidescreen version. I wanted to wait till a package set comes out with all 3 movies before I buy one.

Anyway, I was curious if the one you watched was widescreen or not.

[Corin Stormhands]

It's almost like the term paper was written by G'nad Threadkiller...

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

It's almost like the term paper was written by G'nad Threadkiller.

I take it that you dwarves have some sort of term paper trading ring? Or is it just a similar writing style?

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Evening!

Actually, you make some good points in your paper. I don't think you got a mercy grade at all!

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Anyway, I was curious if the one you watched was widescreen or not.

It was the widescreen version. But then, I didn't rent it, I actually purchased a copy of the widescreen edition at 12:15 am Tuesday morning. I just never got a chance to watch it until Saturday!

I was kind of surprised they didn't have both the "full screen" and wide screen versions on the same disk, as I've seen that on other movie DVDs.

[2Jedismom]

(and I was waiting for 2JM to start flapping

Why would I flap over someone I don't even know coming in all of a sudden and posting 30 complaints on a post with umpteen million other posts? I didn't know he'd been "invited" to do so and I just thought he was mental!

I think I actually read the first couple of complaints and, though somewhat puzzled...disregarded it as nonsense.

[Corin Stormhands]

I take it that you dwarves have some sort of term paper trading ring?

No, but we do have the same hairdresser...

I'm sorry. Did I say that outloud?

[HairOfTheDog]

I did get flapped about the list, I know... It is just that the whole list was so overwhelming and the quibbles so tedious! But it should not have flapped me.

I went to bed really unhappy that night too... but was no better in the morning when he put me on "ignore" and thanked everyone else for their thoughts! Bah humbug!

Live and learn I always say....

I spent the day with my brother here and we started to figure out how to load stuff to web pages... still not working, but at least I know what to play with now.

We gave up after a little bit and watched the film instead.

[HairOfTheDog]

I did get flapped about the list, I know... It is just that the whole list was so overwhelming and the quibbles so tedious! But it should not have flapped me.

I went to bed really unhappy that night too... but was no better in the morning when he put me on "ignore" and thanked everyone else for their thoughts! Bah humbug!

Live and learn I always say....

I spent the day with my brother here and we started to figure out how to load stuff to web pages... still not working, but at least I know what to play with now.

We gave up after a little bit and watched the film instead.

[HairOfTheDog]

Eeek.... OT? - Did you do that?

[HairOfTheDog]

Hair, was the Dan who dissed you Dan from Michigan?

Nooo.... BibChr Dan!.... he was joking but I feigned very hurt feelings.

OK - I have been out all day, I know about the JoeEveryman situation but the Freeper cop killer is news I will have to go find. I imagine it will be prominent. Egads.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

It is dying down now, I think! Search on 'Massillon', the Ohio town where it happenned!

[2Jedismom]

It was a good post and worth saying twice!

I just thought the whole thing was bizarre and blew it off as such (not knowing why the person was posting such a list.)

I rarely debate emotional issues. Only factual ones. And this guy was discussing his feelings about the movie. Well, he's intitled, but they had no connection with my appreciation of it, so ppphhhttt!

[HairOfTheDog]

Reading the first thread now... the shorter one, then I will hit the other... What is the screen name? Is it a secret? - Who knew it was a FReeper?

[HairOfTheDog]

Thats right. I mean... Viggo not perfect? - Really now... That is just crazy talk!

[2Jedismom]

If you post that freeper's name here, you are liable to get the whole thread pulled!! SHHHHH!!

[HairOfTheDog]

That is why I asked if it was a secret! If it is, LCS won't post it... It has been posted to the thread. I saw it.

[2Jedismom]

I'm going to bed. Here's a nice nightlight!