My good people of the third planet from the sun. My loyal readers and visitors, my very dear critiques whom i learn to become a better blogger and fellow boys and girls!

This day i acclaim once again how much The Lord of The Rings is fantastic. J.R.R.Tolkien is THE man! Peter Jackson is DA man! Aragorn, Gandalf, Legolas and Sam are the MEN! They are all factastic.

Now why can't the people of loevely Monash allows us to study books like these ad analyse them instead of other post-modernistics books that are just plain well horrible!

The author and the book!
Firstly all praises to GOD for having created such a man with such a descriptive and imaginative mind. The essence of his story tells of not only a world beyond our sight but also it mixes with a wonderful touch of biblical teaching if not some narrative from it.
The fact he took on and old language from the celtic culture and turned it into his own elven language which is now literally studied as a language..(wow) The creation of middle earth and the people. The creation of the different architectures and the scenes...
I can't speak enough about it as i havne't fully read his book..... which i will soon! No words can cover the magnitude of fantastic, amazing, wonderful, spectacular about the wonders of how Tolkien wrote his book.

The movie and the director
Just too quote something from Lordoftherings.net... 'There is a god.... and he is Peter Jackson!. He has brought to life a book with so much strength and possibilities. He could've messed up like Harry Potter but my goodness it is a fantastic piece of work.

A director is definately an author worthy of praise if he can let others see what he sees. The vision is something which only one person can see behind his own eyes but to bring it too life through visual aid. Fantastic.

It makes me appreciate my media studies on visual analysis so much more. After watching Return of the King, i also watched the extras where Peter Jackson and two other crew members speak about how particular scenes were shot, how they were made and the point why they were done in such a manner... wonderful visual ethnography.

What touched me so much from the story was when Gandalf and Pippin where waiting for the orcs to ram through one barrier. Pippin looked forlorn and felt doom waitign upon him, death and war wat just at his feet. He didn't expect it to end this way...Gandalf consoles him and his words (taken from the movie)

End?
No,the journey doesn't end here..
Death is just another path...
one that we all must take..
The grey rain curtain of this world rolls back..and all turns to silver glass
And then you see it..
White shores...and beyond...A far green country... under a swift sunrise.

That was a beautiful line and it will always be embedded in my memory.

Thank God for salvation..where death has been conquered. And my brothers and sisters...we will see that white shore with the swift sunrise...




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3 comments:

I agree that Aragorn is the MAN. But I reckon that Gandalf is the WIZARD, Legolas is the ELF while Sam is the HOBBIT! :>

But, yeah, the books are fantastic. The bit describing the charge of Rohan in 'The Return of the King' stands as the most fantastic bit of writing I've ever read.

If you want more, I suggest you pick up 'The Silmarillion'. You won't regret it. You'll spend a lot of time reading it, but you won't regret it.

10:27 PM  

Hhehehe.. ok if you want to get technical fine... there are differences but in terms of actors they are all men in the end ^_~.

You shoudl check out the commentary of the movies, they are hilarious and you actually appreciate visual ethnography and the whole point of it ^_^.

10:35 PM  

i was reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms when i watched the Trilogy. hehehehe...I can imagine Guan Yu being Aragon :)

Edmund

7:03 PM  



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