Posted on 05/09/2019 1:45:37 PM PDT by OddLane
What a shame. Sounds like Disney ruined the story.
Tolkien led a fascinating life. He was a great mind.
That is their forte.
Figures.
BTW—Your link is from the Onion.
That said, I know people like that. I’ve traveled with people like that.
I wont be seeing the film.....two years ago when the film A wrinkle in time came out Disney removed all reference to Christianity and Christian philosophy. at this point I decided when ever a movie producer does that to books inspired by Christianity I would just not view there creation. I think Disney will find that lots of Christians will not see this film.
I still can't fathom why they didn't focus an entire film on the Necromancer when there was so much material unexplored in the actual book. Instead inventing tons of pointless sub-plots that had nothing to do with the original story.
I didn't see the film itself, but it sounded like a typical PC disaster.
That was one of the many scenes that wasn’t in the book, was deleted or made up of whole cloth.
The crap on the Brown Wizard(WTF!)
The riddle scene was laboured and unnatural
The mangling of when Bilbo meet Smaug.
The omission of Smaug’s diamond armour with the missing patch.
The fight scenes between the dwarves and Smaug using the melted gold(WTF!)
The shooting of Smaug(The bowman didn’t using a ballista)
The whole Laketown was a fiasco.
Making up of the female elf and the ‘romance’ scene was sickening.
The Hobbit was never a ‘battle” story but a story about a simple hobbit that wanted nothing more than a little adventure in his comfortable hobbit life, not the battle that Tolkien wrote for the Ring trilogy
There is many more but my blood boils at the travesty of what Peter Jackson and Company did to Tolkien’s work
Yeah, Mr Montgomery’s interpretation of Tolkien’s work can be put into Christian category but The Ring trilogy and The Hobbit are not. Both are in the fiction section under fantasy.
Tolkien’s other influences were Nordic and Fin folklore but nobody would label neither of the aforementioned works as ‘history”
Producing anotherstink bomb because they want to marginalize Christianity.
You have not read Tolkein’s explanation of the Ring trilogy. He explicitly designed the story to fulfill fundamental Christian motifs.
I believe that GOD sometimes used odd instrument to spread his word Tolkien was far from the oddest though for many traditionalist his story is hard for them to perceive the links to his wotd.
I think the most profound example of GOD’ use of so done to write profoundly a story which reflects much of his word is Stephen Kings’s novel ‘The Stand’.?
Very much a story of faith and redemtion.
“God doesn’t bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.”
“There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you.”
“I have sinned in pride. So have you all. But that’s past now. It’s time now to give over your will to the will of God. It’s time, to make your STAND.”
I believe that GOD sometimes used odd instrument to spread his word Tolkien was far from the oddest though for many traditionalist his story is hard for them to perceive the links to his wotd.
I think the most profound example of GOD’ use of someone to write profoundly a story which reflects much of his word is Stephen Kings’s novel ‘The Stand’.?
Very much a story of faith and redemtion.
“God doesn’t bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.”
“There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you.”
“I have sinned in pride. So have you all. But that’s past now. It’s time now to give over your will to the will of God. It’s time, to make your STAND.”I
And much more that is very odd writing for a leftist atheist.
I agree it is a good book. I read it last summer.
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18 by Joseph Loconte
“The books ‘breath” morality yet it doesn’t “preach” it.”
Yep. Tolkien was subtle in the way that his Christian faith was part of his stories. It was so much a part of him he didn’t have to consciously try to include it. And he would never have been explicit, he didn’t like that.
If it doesn’t include the Inklings it is worthless.
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