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<blockquote data-quote="Gentlegamer" data-source="post: 5765339" data-attributes="member: 2425"><p>Celebrim, I often agree with you on many things. But here, I think you are quite wrong about Peter Jackson and Tolkien in several respects.</p><p></p><p>I may be back later with more detail, but I'll just say:</p><p></p><p>1. Our representatives, the common people, in Lord of the Rings, are the hobbits themselves. If you want to analyze what is meant by the common point of view, look to their reactions to events. For instance, Sam's realization that they are part of a much larger story that had began long, long ago, that was also filled with seeming hopeless moments.</p><p></p><p>2. While you want to say Ioreth embodies the 'ignorance' of the common people (in her misunderstanding of true heroism), despite what may be called her 'ditzy' character, she also represents the solid, grounded wisdom of the people (also evident when Sam resists the Ring's call to power) when she recalls "The hands of the King are the hands of a healer," whereby Aragorn fulfills his own heritage by proving himself worthy of being a king rather than by being a warlord. In the story itself, Frodo's true tale is praised with the lay of "Frodo the Nine-Fingered and the Ring of Doom" by the minstrel of Gondor, much to the delight of Samwise. If anything, Ioreth's take on events represents how legends are made, where events are distorted by distance and time; the stories of Middle-earth itself can be analyzed as Tolkien providing the "true story" of how several real-world myths were started, being a <a href="http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/arts/al0012.html" target="_blank">"splintered fragment of the true light</a>."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gentlegamer, post: 5765339, member: 2425"] Celebrim, I often agree with you on many things. But here, I think you are quite wrong about Peter Jackson and Tolkien in several respects. I may be back later with more detail, but I'll just say: 1. Our representatives, the common people, in Lord of the Rings, are the hobbits themselves. If you want to analyze what is meant by the common point of view, look to their reactions to events. For instance, Sam's realization that they are part of a much larger story that had began long, long ago, that was also filled with seeming hopeless moments. 2. While you want to say Ioreth embodies the 'ignorance' of the common people (in her misunderstanding of true heroism), despite what may be called her 'ditzy' character, she also represents the solid, grounded wisdom of the people (also evident when Sam resists the Ring's call to power) when she recalls "The hands of the King are the hands of a healer," whereby Aragorn fulfills his own heritage by proving himself worthy of being a king rather than by being a warlord. In the story itself, Frodo's true tale is praised with the lay of "Frodo the Nine-Fingered and the Ring of Doom" by the minstrel of Gondor, much to the delight of Samwise. If anything, Ioreth's take on events represents how legends are made, where events are distorted by distance and time; the stories of Middle-earth itself can be analyzed as Tolkien providing the "true story" of how several real-world myths were started, being a [url=http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/arts/al0012.html]"splintered fragment of the true light[/url]." [/QUOTE]
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