Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
They say the two publications will be the same except for the director's cut.
I would be very interested in how they bring Gollum to life.
You may want to take a look at the review I posted earlier today. The reviewer said that none of the special features on the August DVD will be on the November DVD.
That said, you'll probably be able to pick up August's DVD at a cut-rate price by then if that turns out to be the case.
Plus, I saw some the snippets for the extended cut. The gift giving was in there. All those who were afraid that Sam wouldn't get a rope - he does. And Gimli is properly in love with Galadriel.
Plus... there is a $10 rebate for the gift set. Use that against the huge discount of Amazon and you can get it very cheaply.
Today was the first day I saw a DVD in action... I have been missing out.
My answer:
Of course fantasy can point to Christ, there is nothing inherently diabolical about that particular genre.Lord of the Rings was not intended to be a distinctly Christian allegory like The Chronicles of Narnia. Although Lewis and Tolkien were friends, I have heard that Lewis' friendship with Tolkien was instrumental to his conversion to Christianity, I think they had two different motivations for writing the things they did.
Lewis' stories were written in, what seems to me, an Apologetical manner. He attempted to present the Gospel in a manner that would reach all sorts of different people. Reading Narnia you can't help but see Christ and the Gospel.
Tolkien, on the other hand, wrote with the great themes of Christianity in mind i.e. life, death, good, evil, friendship, love, hate. He may not have had storylines and characters that could be directly traced to the Bible, but they were there indirectly.
Just reading The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit will not give you a sense of the big picture that Tolkien has placed his characters in. To get that you need to read The Silmarillion. In that work you are told of the greater forces that are at work in LoTR. You have the one Creator God, his two classes of servants: the Valar, and the Maiar, the story of how the greatest of his servants desired to serve himself and rebelled against the Creator God, the creation of the world, the creation of Elves and Men. It is really quite fascinating. I could detect threads of thought in The Silmarillion that were distinctly patterned after what we, as Christians, believe.
I hope that helps. If you want, come ask your Tolkien questions over on The Hobbit Hole. There are people there that are much more knowledgeable about Tolkien than myself. ;^)
I just wanted to share this with you all so that I could get your feedback to see if I was way off base with my answer.
I'm actually working so I can pay off all that stuff I bought last weekend. :)
I think that's what made them believable.
Oh, man! I can't believe you said that! Just kidding. :)
Things are slowing down around here, half an hour to go, and I'm feeling a bit Tookish.
The NeverEnding Story post #21713.
I'm here too, but I'm distracted this afternoon...wonder why? ;-)
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