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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tom Cashel" data-source="post: 1142138" data-attributes="member: 321">Heh.  I notice you take no issue with my summary execution of The Matrix. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Eternal human dilemma: For me the LotR films are about death.  The human constant, the fate that awaits us all, the burning eye and the shadow swelling in the east.The Big Questions: As a human being, what will you do with the time that you've been given?  Will you make a stand, try to achieve something noble in the face of certain doom?  Or will you live in the shadow, side by side with it, and hope for the best?Lu has a good point about the battle scenes...but the things that really resonate with me are not those scenes.  The steady crumbling of Frodo, the last words of Boromir, the antics of Merry and Pippin, the loyalty of Sam Gamgee, the pitiful madness of Gollum, the inability and unwillingness of the ancient and magical races to muster any substantive resistance against Sauron--these are the things I remember best.These films follow the cycle of myth as shown by Tolkien and explicated by Joseph Campbell...but they boil down Tolkien's tangential masterpiece into a single powerful tale.The grace, style and simplicity are just my opinion....And whaddya mean "vaguely" poetic??  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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