I thought this was a nice commentary from TownHall
To: LinnieBeth
The deepest sadness and the greatest brilliance of the series lies in how Frodo cannot return to the home he has preserved at the cost of his deepest self. As he says immediately before he, well, dies: "I wanted to save the Shire, Sam, and it has been saved, but not for me." To which the book adds, "So it must sometimes be, that someone must give something up, to lose it, in order for others to have it."
Any soldier returning from his Mordor cannot but understand those words as the truest in the whole book.
To: ecurbh
Can you Ping the Ringers?
To: LinnieBeth
Excellent post- thank you!
6 posted on
12/23/2003 4:20:52 AM PST by
Lil'freeper
(By all that we hold dear on this Earth I bid you stand, men of the West!)
To: LinnieBeth
Sat. night we walked past the theatre where this was playing. A long line of people were lined up waiting to go in. I was struck by how much thoes waiting looked like the characters in the movie. I don't think I have ever seen a stranger & more diverse group of humans.
8 posted on
12/23/2003 5:46:24 AM PST by
Ditter
To: LinnieBeth; ecurbh
Good essay, thanks.
It's good to know that at least some of the participants, notably John Rhys-Davies (Gimli) DO "get it," totally.
Dan
12 posted on
12/23/2003 6:35:26 AM PST by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: LinnieBeth
Out of Hollywood rises an epic Good essay...but to put the fine point of criticism on it, Hollywood cannot take much (or any) credit for it. It was created essentially by New Zealanders in New Zealand.
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