January 01, 2004
The Return of the King
I love The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I love the complexity, the language, and the tale itself... of how good can overcome evil, how loyalty, even when one has been betrayed in the past is a noble thing. The story is not new, yet it is ever new and rich filled with images that linger in the mind's eye...
So, when it was announced several years ago that LOTR was to be adapted to film I was thrilled and repulsed at the same time. Could the splendor of Middle Earth be captured and not demeaned? I will say that Peter Jackson did a wonderful job of bringing Middle Earth to life. The places like Helm's Deep, Gondor, and Mount Doom, were depicted how I always imagined them. The peoples of Middle Earth...Elvish, Dwarf, Hobbit, Ent, Orc and Man, again not disappointed in the least....
Our hero, a Hobbit named Frodo Baggins, is dispatched to take the object of ultimate evil, the Ring, to its birth place the fires of Mt. Doom, and destroy it by returning it to those flames. a really impossible journey. It is accomplished with the help of a few friends a bit of magic and long suffering...but he couldn't have even begun the journey on his magnificent quest if he had lacked one thing...Frodo had a pure heart, with pure motives. Because of this he could be the Bearer of the Ring of Power, semi immune to its corrupting influences.... Telling more of the story will spoil it for the few that may have not seen the movie yet.... We went to see the final installment of the trilogy today and while i felt it spent way too much time on a certain spider, and far too little time on the Elves and their role in restoring the King to the throne of Men, I liked the movie very much...
In 2001 and again in 2002 when I saw the first two installments, I found myself asking the question upon leaving the theatre..." Where is Frodo Baggins?" Where is the leader with the pure motive that it will take to sort out the messes we have in the world. Want to know the truth..(as I see it) I think the our President Mr. George W Bush is that man. You can laugh if you want. But I think that he does have pure motives for much of what he does and that the spin doctors really twist things. His focus on terrorism is that sort of quest that I am talking about. Its almost a tunnel vision, I think he is a nice man and means well even if I don't agree with him all the time. He certainly cares about what he does and takes every resposibility to heart. I am very glad that we have him to lead us. He may not solve much...But his heart is in the right place.
Very tired. Have a lot to do on the inventory tomorrow. Have a great New Year's Day.....
