I agree, the LOTR movie was wonderfully well done and very faithful to the book. Even though I groaned at the obviously heavy-handed imagery when Saruman tears down the trees. His betrayal is faithful to Tolkien's view :
GOOD= pastoral nature, protected by faithful gameskeepers who bow and scrape to the hereditary scions of ancient families and their loyal priests. BAD= egalitarian industry, production, factories, modernism, uppity lower class revolutionaries. I despise this reflex abasement to the romantic worldview, extolling the kings and wizards who oppressed our ancestors for 6,000 years. But I do recognize its artistic resonance. In LOTR it's honest. In Star Wars it is insidious and sneaky and illogical and vile. =========== Someone please email me separately if this gets through. So far I have seen no sign that ANY of the messages I've sent to the new Brin-L have even once gotten through. The digesting system never worked. For a while messages got filtered into an email collection box. Now I'm not even getting those anymore. Alas. Thrive, folks. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
