[Alkhin]

It is laughable how Jackson, Mortensson, et al are all running around saying LOTR supports the usual suspects in politics ie the geriatric bromides of environmentalism (Boyd and Monaghan talking about how Greenpeace is such a worthy group to support because Tolkien cared about trees and they should know plenty about trees because they played characters that liked trees on screen), and postulating that war really is caused by those GREEDY conservatives who want to take over the world.

It is laughable how they are going around seeing that, yet TTT is so akin to the war/realities/terrors we face in this day and age, it is difficult to find sympathy for them.

I am finding it increasingly difficult to watch the movies WITHOUT remembering how they are so adamant in their leftism.

[Miss Marple]

The movie was made before September 11, 2001. I believe what has struck the entertainment and the news people is how it is VERY easy to see parallels in the movie to the war.

MSNBC just ran a piece on Tolkien and his background. In the middle of the program, they ran a long analogy between Frodo's quest to destroy the ring and some ecologist's quest to save the rain forest of the Congo. It had NOTHING to do with Tolkien, or Britain, or mythology, or anything except saying "Look here! This movie is really about saving trees!"

A clumsy try, which my husband and I saw through.

I imagine there will be more of this as the movie's lessons are discussed, and as war with Iraq approaches. They are desperate to convince us that what we see isn't really there.

[tbird5]

allowing married clergy, talking about the possibility of women priests, or initiating a dialogue on the role of homosexuals in the church.....
Great writer but he can never think out of the box