Gimli/John Rhys Davis on Medved Now Discussing Terrorism

Michael Medved Show

[Cinnamon Girl]

He admits to having a far different view of things than fellow actor Viggo Mortensen.

[Softballmom]

I'm so disappointed! I knew Sean Astin was a Dem, but I thought he was fairly patriotic. Too bad.

[StoneColdGOP]

Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu!

[SouthernFreebird]

Mmmmmmmmm... I just love elves.

[EllaMinnow]

I just love that elf...

[Tempest]

"I realize I'm biased, but conservative actors always seem far more intelligent than the liberal ones."

That's not called biased. That's called correct, attuned, or prophetically observant.

[nutmeg]

LOTR ping!

[SouthernFreebird]

I just think it's hilarious that these anti war actors have done more by making this trilogy to convince the younger generations that somethings are worth fighting for and you will have to eventually make a stand in your life for good or evil. The message all the kids I know came away with is there is honor in fighting for what is right.

[Paul Atreides]

He admits to having a far different view of things than fellow actor Viggo Mortensen.

Viggo is from the Sean Penn variety of actor: the more they mumble, the more "profound" they are supposed to be.

[Tempest]

Poor John Rhys-Davies, his career in Hollywood will now be over. That is unless the Sarandon, Streisand, Penn, and the rest of the clowns I mean great defenders of free speech come to his rescue.

I often wonder what happened to Tom Selleck's career after Rosie nailed him to the cross.

[SouthernFreebird]

I loved that other one too....the one that died in the battle.

[Paul Atreides]

I have no doubt in my mind that anti-war actors and actresses would take up arms to protect their "right" to murder an unborn child.

[EllaMinnow]

Just for you!

[ovrtaxt]

Similar to Mark Hammill with Star Wars. He is appalled that his calling card to fame portrays absolute good vs. absolute evil. It's NOT all relative!

[SouthernFreebird]

Oh yeah, thats him.....shoooooooooo he is H- O- T.

many thanks.......

[Paul Atreides]

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is ruling out the prospect of returning to America to raise her child - because she deems her homeland too dangerous. The Oscar winning beauty - who is pregnant with her husband Chris Martin's baby - has been living in London since settling down with the Coldplay star, and she has no intention of bringing up their child in a threatening environment. She says, "I worry about brining up a child in America. At the moment there's a weird, over-patriotic atmosphere over there, like, 'We're number one and the rest of the world doesn't matter.' And the guns in school - it's not great."

http://www.imdb.com/PeopleNews/#2

[A Citizen Reporter]

"I was so disgusted by Elijah Wood and Sean Astin's commentary track on "The Two Towers" DVD, I had to turn it off. "

Thanks for telling us about that. I have the DVD, but haven't yet to listened to the actor's track. Now, I'll skip it.

I have noticed that this commentary track on DVD releases is the newest way for the leftists to insert their world view. Even on old films. I got the "1776" DVD, and discovered that there was an entire scene cut from the original film, ridiculing conservatives (with goose-stepping choreographed into the scene.) The director remarked that President Nixon asked that it be removed from the film, and they complied. Imagine that happening today......

[Paul Atreides]

Similar to Mark Hammill with Star Wars. He is appalled that his calling card to fame portrays absolute good vs. absolute evil.

Just not enough to refuse the paycheck he got for being in Star Wars.

[JerseyHighlander]

Gimli raises axe for Western civilization

Perhaps the most passionate observations came from John Rhys-Davies, who plays the dwarf Gimli and voices Treebeard the Ent. Focusing on the necessity of defending civilization in times of crisis, Rhys-Davies took the media to task for failing to appreciate the preciousness of Western civilization, and warned of the potential consequences of rising Muslim extremism and the increasingly Islamic face of Europe.

“I think that Tolkien says that some generations will be challenged,” said Rhys-Davies, “and if they do not rise to meet that challenge, they will lose their civilization. That does have a real resonance with me.”

Pointing a finger at the media, Rhys-Davies went on, “What is unconscionable is that too many of your fellow journalists do not understand how precarious Western civilization is, and what a jewel it is… The abolition of slavery comes from Western democracy. True democracy comes from our Greco-Judeo-Christian Western experience. If we lose these things, then this is a catastrophe for the world.”

Rhys-Davies revealed that as far back as 1955 his father had predicted that “the next World War will be between Islam and the West.” The actor recalled his response: “I said to him, ’Dad, you’re nuts! The Crusades have been over for hundreds of years!’ And he said, ’Well, I know, but militant Islam is on the rise again. And you will see it in your lifetime.’ He’s been dead some years now. But there’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think of him and think, ’God, I wish you were here, just so I could tell you that you were right.’”

Looking at the lone female journalist at the table, Rhys-Davies said pointedly, “You should not be in this room [according to Muslim custom]. Because your husband or your father or your husband is not here to guide you. You could only be here in this room with these strange men for immoral purposes.”

Rhys-Davies went on to contemplate the significance of demographic shifts among Western Europeans and Muslims in Europe. “There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren’t bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially. And rightly we should be. But there is a cultural thing as well… By 2020, fifty percent of the children in Holland under the age of 18 will be of Muslim descent…

“And don’t forget, coupled with this there is this collapse of numbers. Western Europeans are not having any babies. The population of Germany at the end of the century is going to be 56% of what it is now. The populations of France, 52% of what it is now. The population of Italy is going to be down 7 million people.

“There is a change happening in the very complexion of Western civilization in Europe that we should think about at least and argue about. If it just means the replacement of one genetic stock with another genetic stock, that doesn’t matter too much. But if it involves the replacement of Western civilization with a different civilization with different cultural values, then it is something we really ought to discuss — because, [hang it all], I am for dead-white-male culture!”

His fellow filmmakers might not all agree, but Tolkien would have applauded.

http://www.decentfilms.com/commentary/lotr_junket.html

[Sci Fi Guy]

When he was on the show Sliders, John Rhys-Davies fought to make his character a role model rather than being amoral and power-hungry.

I love that episode of slider's where his character points out that every generation dreams of freedom, but only one wrote the Declaration of Independence. (in that episode they visited a police state that loss the Declaration of Independence / Constitution.)

[Paul Atreides]

I hated it when they killed off the Professor. And, that was before I even knew Mr. Rhys-Davies's politics.