Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
I composed it in Word, so the "smart quotes" were my demise? I wasn't sure WHAT to do about it.
And yes, we have the next one to look forward to...
"Well, master, we're in a fix and no mistake!"
Fellowship Of The Ring: Cultural Event of Great Significance
I like this part (at the end) ...For all its riches, "The Fellowship of the Ring" does not satisfy. You don't leave the theater sighing contentedly, "Wow, that was awesome. Weren't the Hobbits cute?" No: You are seized by a restless yearning for purity and beauty, to be worthy of Middle Earth; deeply inspired, as by a Muse; remoralized.
You realize afresh that humans cannot live without ideals, that ideals are more real than the starkest realism and more essential, just as art is more real than life — hence its terribly beauty.
You have experienced the sublime, defined by John Ruskin: "Anything which elevates the mind is sublime, and elevation of mind is produced by the contemplation of greatness of any kind, whether of matter, space, power, beauty or virtue." Life is re-aestheticized.
I just got back from watching the film... and may it always leave me feeling this way.
and yes I checked the link