Posted on 12/14/2013 6:35:37 PM PST by Perdogg
modernist revision? of course it is good vs evil, in a fantasy setting. You can basically say all fantasy novels are good vs evil. But they aren’t fantasy. I’m not quoting the wiki. I’m quoting the MILLIONS of sites and people that say it is fantasy, the ground breaker of the genre, in fact.
Why?
Why post Ben’s letter?
I like his sense of humor and share his regard for maturer women as a maturer, if still enthusiastically sophomoric at time, male.
Or why grateful?
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs I guess, we all need to be appreciated by somebody.
To paraphrase Ole Ben’s letter:
They don’t tell,
They don’t swell,
And they’re grateful as hell!
LOL!
The only quasi-political thing I had a problem with was a brief bit of dialogue, where Tauriel was belittled as "just a lowly wood elf" or words to that effect. That single line has the potential to introduce a Pandora's Box of non-Tolkien politics to the series.
The line strongly implies that (contrary to everything in the books) King Thranduil and Legolas are part of a caste of High Elves (distinguished by their blond hair) who rule over the brown-haired wood elves in a sort of Elven Jim Crow regime. In the books they are all wood elves. I really, really do not want any kind of lecture on "racial privilege", particularly from a Tolkien film. I just hope they forget this line in the third film and do not go there any further.
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