[Mr. Silverback]

BreakPoint/Chuck Colson Ping!

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[Guillermo]

Wait, but I thought LOTR was racist...

[Professional Engineer]

ping

[muleskinner]

Colson Ring Ping

[cavtrooper21]

C-

Good post.

-C

[Cicero]

I think I read a piece of Ralph Wood's book in a scholarly journal a few weeks ago. I met him when I gave a talk down at Baylor a couple of years ago. I expect the book will be first rate. Wood is Evangelical, but he seems to understand and respect Tolkien's Catholicism.

One more sign, I think, that in today's cultural climate Catholics and Evangelicals have a lot of useful things to share with one another.

[Dacus943]

Saw the movie tonight! Word fail me! Hard to explain just how moving this epic is on the emotional levels.

This movie will sweep you away!!!

[Cicero]

[Paradox]

I just got back from the movie, and it has left me totally drained. I give it 3.5 stars out of 4. Easily the best movie I have seen this year.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Yes indeed. When life tells me to give up, there is no chance of success and all odds are stacked against me; great stories like this fortify my spirit and rekindle the flame of hope. To try ones best in the face of overwhelming adversity and carry on when logic dictates otherwise.
Tolkein was preaching the human spirit and encouraging all of us to never give up.

[Arkinsaw]

The mindless hordes from the east, with veils on their faces, versus the brave men of The West and intent on destroying them to a man and their culture down to the last statue. A very familiar story well told.

[Malsua]

As I have read LOTR at least 10 times in the past 25 years, I have to comment if for nothing else than to feed my own solidarity with the movies.

The movies are GREAT. The extended DVDs actually mimic the book much closer. I will forgive Jackson for Arwin. Glorfindel would have been better placed.

Tom Bombadil is also conspicuously missing. Other than these few issues, the movies are resonably close enough I can forgive the differences. I never envisioned a movie could show what I had read when I was a child in the 70s. The movies have come as close as I feel it could have come.

I will see ROTK this weekend. I know the story, I know what happens, I simply can't wait to view it.

[GeronL]

doesn't the STARZ cable channel run the second and first movies this weekend??

[Aquinasfan]

I think Chuck's got to the heart of it. C.S. Lewis' comments are interesing.

[k2blader]

A few weeks ago I finished reading "Finding God in The Lord of the Rings" by Kurt Bruner and Jim Ware. I'll need to check out Woods' book too.

[Utah Girl]

Tolkien ping

[Lady Eileen]

Bump and thanks for the post.