[Don Feder] Film of the Year: The Return of the King

Front Page Magazine ^ | 12/31/03 | Don Feder

[rhema]

How good it is to seen Don Feder in print again.

[Lil'freeper]

Ping!

[The G Man]

Thats a pretty good take on it, IMO.

[chicagolady]

Personally My vote for best picture


SeaBiscuit!!!..................and their off!

[Ladysmith]

orcs (rather a cross between a troll with a really bad hair day and Barbra Streisand)

LOL

[jaime1959]

While Tolikien´s faith certainly shaped his vision of Middle Earth, he was foremost a philologist, the world´s foremost authority on Beowulf, and one of the greatest scholars of Old English and the Anglo-Saxon people. His purpose in writing the trilogy and The Silmarillion, was to re-create a "lost mythology" of the Anglo-Saxon people. His faith, his experiences in WWI, and his environmentalism/ruralism were all displayed in his works, but it was his love of language and his English heritage which spurred him to write.

[Damocles]

Although he loathed allegory, Tolkien wrote in a 1953 letter to Fr. Robert Murray: "The Lord of the Rings" is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision."

I came to that conclusion as well, but the above statement seems to indicate otherwise.

Looks like more research is in order...

[randita]

Movies in which ordinary, even flawed people triumph over evil and/or tremendous adversity usually are big hits.

The LOR movie trilogy will stand as one of the greatest artisitic accomplishments of our time. I am sorry it is over as I enjoyed it thoroughly.

[aruanan]

His Oxford friends included fellow don C.S. Lewis, author of "The Chronicles of Narnia." When they met, Lewis was a skeptic. Tolkien has the distinction of bringing back to the Christian fold the greatest Christian apologist of the 20th century.

I don't remember Lewis crediting Tolkien with this.

[aruanan]

His Oxford friends included fellow don C.S. Lewis, author of "The Chronicles of Narnia."

And Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength, his adult science fiction trilogy still in print, as well as a whole bunch of other thoroughly fantastic books.

[BibChr]

...orcs (rather a cross between a troll with a really bad hair day and Barbra Streisand)....

Gotta love Don Feder, sort of a male Ann Coulter.

Ping the gang?

Dan

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Ping the Ringers?

[uncbob]

Although he loathed allegory, Tolkien wrote in a 1953 letter to Fr. Robert Murray: "The Lord of the Rings" is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision."

That does it

If this becomes public then the left wing reviwers will all of a sudden find a reason to pan the movie

[BibChr]

He was out of print?

[ecurbh]

Ring Ping!!

There and Back Again: The Journeys of Flat Frodo

Anyone wishing to be added to or removed from the Ring-Ping list, please don't hesitate to let me know.

[BibChr]

I appreciate your honesty with his statement. I see so many (inluding Ian McKellen) scoffing at any religious overtones in LOTR — in which case they are, in effect, disagreeing with the author himself!

And I say this as one myself who, though both a Christian and a multi-decade reader of LOTR, has never been overwhelmed by anything religious in LOTR. I've come to see that it must be mostly in the moral and teleological fabric of Tolkien's universe. There are, as well, a few more overt statements sprinked here and there, and more so in the Silmarillion — or in the portion I've been able to labor through!

Dan

[BibChr]

Those three are really something. I took a while to warm to the third, but the second is gripping and highly imaginative. The first is just fun.

Dan

[aruanan]

I enjoyed how each of them is so different from the others, but especially the way they all show that there is more to this world than meets the eye. Lewis was right on, wasn't he, about the modern mindset tending to totalitarianism? The one book I had the hardest time reading, the first time, was Till We Have Faces. Several years later, in college, I tried it again and found it to be excellent. Have you read Light in the Shadowlands: Protecting the Real C. S. Lewis, an expanded version of The C.S. Lewis Hoax by Kathryn Lindskoog?

[Taliesan]

Tolkein was an influence, among many. "...Bringing back to the...fold" is too strong.