on evil...
evil is bad, mmmkay?
i just threw Lord of the Rings into the 'ol dvd player on a boring saturday night. i really really love these movies. j.r.r. tolkein was some sort of creative genius.
but everyone is always looking for that "message" in LOTR. the common misconception is that it's about WWII. there is a lot of compraisons between characters and plotline and soforth. (hitler being sauron and the huge battles of many different lands combining being the allied powers).
here's where my innergeek pokes out... Tolkein wrote much of LOTR and his other stories in the battles of WWI. supposedly he was even drawing maps in the trenches of warfare.
ANYway... a war may have modeled the story, but the real "message" here is much simpler.
a huge evil power was taken out by the most unexpected of the smallest of creatures.
and you know WHY??? because they were good people. and they kept on pushing through all the evil surrounding them.
and after the good little creatures were at their wits' end... evil put an end to itself. it was b/c the one ring was evil that it was destroyed. a jealous fight destroyed a keeper of the ring and took the ring finger of its other keeper.
and i think THAT'S the "message" j.r.r. tolkein was giving us.
if you're faced with evil, stick to your guns, and eventually, you will be rewarded and the evil will eventually give way to good.
no go laugh at me for being a LOTR freak.
i just threw Lord of the Rings into the 'ol dvd player on a boring saturday night. i really really love these movies. j.r.r. tolkein was some sort of creative genius.
but everyone is always looking for that "message" in LOTR. the common misconception is that it's about WWII. there is a lot of compraisons between characters and plotline and soforth. (hitler being sauron and the huge battles of many different lands combining being the allied powers).
here's where my innergeek pokes out... Tolkein wrote much of LOTR and his other stories in the battles of WWI. supposedly he was even drawing maps in the trenches of warfare.
ANYway... a war may have modeled the story, but the real "message" here is much simpler.
a huge evil power was taken out by the most unexpected of the smallest of creatures.
and you know WHY??? because they were good people. and they kept on pushing through all the evil surrounding them.
and after the good little creatures were at their wits' end... evil put an end to itself. it was b/c the one ring was evil that it was destroyed. a jealous fight destroyed a keeper of the ring and took the ring finger of its other keeper.
and i think THAT'S the "message" j.r.r. tolkein was giving us.
if you're faced with evil, stick to your guns, and eventually, you will be rewarded and the evil will eventually give way to good.
no go laugh at me for being a LOTR freak.
