Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Plus, based on the conversation between Faramir, Denethor, and Gandalf in ROTK, Boromir had his marching orders from his father. To get the ring and bring it back to Minas Tirith.
If you want heat, bash the Elves! :D
When I was a kid, then a teenager, I loved reading fantasy/sci-fi, mostly fantasy. I read the Thomas Covenant series back then. After I became a Christian I picked it up again, and nearly threw it across the room ;^). I despise Harry Potter and I love Tolkien.
My daughter asked me one night “Dad, why is Harry Potter bad but LOTR good?” I wasn’t quite prepared for that question. I told her that in the Harry Potter series that magic was glorified, and that good and bad were intermingled. Whereas in LOTR good is good, evil is evil, magic is not glorified, more often than not it corrupts those who attempt to wield it.
She then asked “What about Gandalf? He’s a wizard.” I told her that even though he had the title of “Wizard” in the book he was actually an angelic like being that was sent by the one “God” to help protect Middle-Earth.
Anyway, I don’t know why I went into all that, but there it is.
Do you have any good book suggestions for someone of the [fundamental] Christian persuasion? What do you think of Lawhead?
Thanks.
-ksen
To answer your Tolkien-unrelated but interesting question, it would seem to me that God has a dim view of kings! After all, when the Israelites demanded a king, didn't Samuel warn them of all the bad things that would happen? And since I'm a stickler for semantics, I might add that a democracy is "mob rule", where the whole people decide every issue, and not practical on a large scale. What we practice is a representative republic, not a democracy. Which is why this site is called "Free Republic".
I'll be back for real Tolkien talk after second breakfast.
How about that old guy who was in that Ron Howard movie where all these old people were turned youthful from swimming in a pool that had "alien" pods in them? Wilford Brimley I believe is his name.
-ksen
I see what you mean. After all, Elrond looked like a boy, Legolas looked, mostly, like a boy, but Haldir and his folk all looked like amazon women. ;^)
-ksen
I doubt it. I am setting myself up for disapointment because I hope they sweep, but I predict that FoTR will not get the awards we would like to see it get. There are logical reasons why they should not let FoTR sweep this time. They can't. They have two more years after this one for movies that have all the promise of being just as high in quality as this one. They are not going to let LoTR and a small film company dominate all the major awards for three whole years and they have to worry about precedent.
Prediction: (write this down)
McKellan wins, and maybe three other more minor awards like song or technical awards. Against all hope, I don't think they will get Director or Picture, although a higher chance for director than picture.
In the next two years, we will see Actor or Supporting Actor nominations for both Elijah Wood and Viggo Mortenson.
I bet they award the whole effort most heavily in the third year.
Patrick Stewart seems a bit too serious to play the jolly Tom Bombadil, and I can't picture him (even with the miracles that Hollywood performs) with "thick brown hair...crowned with autumn leaves." Shatner would be much better suited personality-wise for the role, I think, but then I'm a biased hardcore fan of the original Trek series.
-ksen
Have you heard of an actor named Robert Hardy out of England. He played Siegfried Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small series... He would be perfect. Great actor, disappears into the role, has the look of Bombadil.
hehehe - I am not the guru in the group!
Well, perhaps I am blending the film and the book this morning... On a quick skim through... I didn't find it... I found one passage that on its own makes it look like Frodo's presumption:
Frodo rose to his feet. A great weariness was on him, but his will was firm and his heart lighter. He spoke aloud to himself. `I will do now what I must,' he said. 'This at least is plain: the evil of the Ring is already at work even in the Company, and the Ring must leave them before it does more harm. I will go alone. Some I cannot trust, and those I can trust are too dear to me: poor old Sam, and Merry and Pippin. Strider, too: his heart yearns for Minas Tirith, and he will be needed there, now Boromir has fallen into evil. I will go alone. At once.'
Hmm, Jack Nicholson...I can picture him dancing down a path, babbling inSane poetry, but I think 90% of the audience would be expecting him to slit his guests' throats while they sleep or go berserk with an axe in the forest...or at least answer the hobbits' inquiries with a snarling "You can't handle the truth!" Nicholson is an orc if I ever saw one.
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