Gimli/John Rhys Davis on Medved Now Discussing Terrorism

Michael Medved Show

[solitas]

"...Asps. Very dangerous. YOU go first!..." LOL :)

[solitas]

He was also in "I, Claudius." Do you remember his character's name?

Macro (courtesy of IMDB)

[Smocker]

Rhys Davis' comments about the west vs islam sound very much like a Hilaire Belloc influence.

"...Whatever the cause be, Mohammedanism has survived, and vigorously survived. Missionary effort has had no appreciable effect upon it. It still converts pagan savages wholesale. It even attracts from time to time some European eccentric, who joins its body. . No fragment of Islam ever abandons its sacred book, its code of morals, its organized system of prayer, its simple doctrine.

In view of this, anyone with a knowledge of history is bound to ask himself whether we shall not see in the future a revival of Mohammedan political power, and the renewal of the old pressure of Islam upon Christendom..."

"... These things being so, the recrudescence of Islam, the possibility of that terror under which we lived for centuries reappearing, and of our civilization again fighting for its life against what was its chief enemy for a thousand years, seems fantastic. Who in the Mohammedan world today can manufacture and maintain the complicated instruments of modern war? Where is the political machinery whereby the religion of Islam can play an equal part in the modern world?

I say the suggestion that Islam may re-arise sounds fantastic_but this is only because men are always powerfully affected by the immediate past:_one might say that they are blinded by it..."

"...Cultures spring from religions; ultimately the vital force which maintains any culture is its philosophy, its attitude toward the universe; the decay of a religion involves the decay of the culture corresponding to it_we see that most clearly in the breakdown of Christendom today. The bad work begun at the Reformation is bearing its final fruit in the dissolution of our ancestral doctrines_the very structure of our society is dissolving.

In the place of the old Christian enthusiasms of Europe there came, for a time, the enthusiasm for nationality, the religion of patriotism. But self-worship is not enough, and the forces which are making for the destruction of our culture, notably the Jewish Communist propaganda from Moscow, have a likelier future before them than our old-fashioned patriotism.

In Islam there has been no such dissolution of ancestral doctrine_or, at any rate, nothing corresponding to the universal break-up of religion in Europe. The whole spiritual strength of Islam is still present in the masses of Syria and Anatolia, of the East Asian mountains, of Arabia, Egypt and North Africa.

The final fruit of this tenacity, the second period of Islamic power, may be delayed:_but I doubt whether it can be permanently postponed..."

Belloc said all this in his book "The Great Heresies" some time in the 1920's.

[Bella_Bru]

The 3 of us with Orlando?

Poor Orlando...don't know that he could handle all of us......

Of course, fisrt we'd all have to fight for who got him first.

[Bella_Bru]

I went to the Musueum of Tolerance here in L.A. for a screening of ROTK and then a Q&A with Sean Astin afterward. Smart me brought a pic of him as Sam for him to sign afterward. He is hot up close too. :-) But, I have loved him since my adolescent days as a Goonies fan.

Damn, I'm old.

[stands2reason]

Lucky you. He just comes off as a decent sort, which is pretty remarkable being raised in hollywood and all....

And those eyes....

:-)

[stands2reason]

Where are the pictures? I wouldn't mind some hot FR guys in my hotties folder!

...many of the best of us are already taken.

Tell me about it! I realized all the guys in my folder are married except for one. Wait, two now, since I snagged that Legolas pic from you, shel.

[Bella_Bru]

He was so "normal". I was very impressed, considering how many child actors go nowhere once they reach 18 or end up as crackheads.

His wife is one lucky girl!

[nonliberal]

Sounds like he has read The Death of the West.

[Hot Tabasco]

would Gimli make a better soldier or a Marine?

I always thought that Davis was a very big man, how is it that he looks extremely small in the LOTR when compared to the other actors throughout the series?

[shellylet]

I thought Texas had a lot of "real men"!
I say again...where do you find the guys with honor, integrity and courage? Unmarried ones, that is! Heck, I even go to church and haven't met anyone yet! And I love football on top of that!!! :)

[shellylet]

Uhh! He's a dwarf! Special effects!

[stands2reason]

Texas does have "real men" and better looking ones than you find on TV or in the movies.

There are a lot of single guys here on FR bemoaning the fact that single non-liberal females are too rare---you should go to the Freeps in your area. There's been at least one marriage made through FR that I know of....

[Old Student]

"Wrong. Every one of us has espoused some sort of liberalness sometimes in our lives. To claim that we haven't is the moral equivalent of saying you have never sinned. Never slighted someone. Never made a mistake. To boast that you are approaching perfection is pride of the hideous sorts. We have ALL made such statements, whether you want to maturely admit it or not. I know it. God knows it. And everyone here at FR knows it."

You nailed it, FRiend. Thank you.

[Wallace T.]

To my knowledge, most of the other cast members are men or women of the Left. Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellan, Orlando Bloom, Liv Tyler, Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, and Dominic Monaghan should personally oppose the pro-Western, pro-Christian ideology of Tolkien, based on reasonable inferences from interviews of them from various sources. The LOTR trilogy is an extended metaphor for the struggle of traditional Western civilization against modernism and materialism. It is a tribute to the professionalism of Mortensen and his cohorts that they carried out their roles so well. But then again, Hollywood has cast lefties like Harrison Ford and William Baldwin as American patriots, for example in various movies based on Tom Clancy novels.

[Ciexyz]

Please tell me that Legolas (Orlando Bloom) is keeping his mouth shut about politics.

[Triple Word Score]

Wow! Now THAT post wants a fire extinguisher!