Posted on 01/04/2005 6:42:27 PM PST by quidnunc
*Ping...thought this might interest you
Human frailty and imperfection. Frodo's will was strong, but he is not immune to weakness. He isn't the power of good itself, only a mere hobbit, thrown into a huge battle against evil. Gollum, really, was the same way, though he may have started with a lower standing.
The end, some think, represents a certain amount of divine providence.
D*** baggage!
~shrugs~ Sorry for you! Maybe get outside and clear your head a little.
The guy who wrote that tripe is not a TOLKIEN freak, he's just a plain old FREAK!
From "Fog on the Barrow-Downs", The Fellowship of the Ring Chapter 8:
‘I thought that I was lost,' said Frodo; 'but I don't want to speak of it. Let us think of what we are to do now! Let us go on!'
'Dressed up like this, sir?' said Sam. 'Where are my clothes?' He flung his circlet, belt, and rings on the grass, and looked round helplessly, as if he expected to find his cloak, jacket, and breeches, and other hobbit-garments lying somewhere to hand.
'You won't find your clothes again,' said Tom, bounding down from the mound, and laughing as he danced round them in the sunlight. One would have thought that nothing dangerous or dreadful had happened; and indeed the horror faded out of their hearts as they looked at him, and saw the merry glint in his eyes.
'What do you mean?' asked Pippin, looking at him, half puzzled and half amused. 'Why not?'
But Tom shook his head, saying: 'You've found yourselves again, out of the deep water. Clothes are but little loss, if you escape from drowning. Be glad, my merry friends, and let the warm sunlight heal now heart and limb! Cast off these cold rags! Run naked on the grass, while Tom goes a-hunting!'
I wouldn't have minded a few good lookin' hobbits runnin' naked on the grass ;~D
In the story he was the bad guy. I believe LOTR was a story based on a conservative philosophy. No one can be sure because the guy is dead.
Smeagol killed Deagol and took the One Ring that Deagol had found after Isildur had lost it many years before. He made the decision to do that, put on the ring and remove himself from the world. His evil was compounded by the Ring, and it was only when he was given glimplses of his old self that he had any doubts. In the end greedy Gollum won out.
Bilbo made the choice, though it was a painful one, to leave the Ring to Frodo. Bilbo knew it wasn't good for him to have it; he was beginning to want it WAY too much. He knew Frodo was a good person, and would probably be able to resist the lure of the Ring. Frodo did, for the most part, and it wasn't until right at the end, that he decided he didn't want to give it up. That decision was changed by the actions of another with true evil in mind. Frodo recovered from his bout with the Ring, but lost his desire to live in his old world. In the end, he, too, had to make a choice, and he chose to leave what he had always known because the circumstances of his life had changed him so much that the old ways were no longer peaceful and comfortable for him.
It was about free will, on the part of those who would use their talents for good or for evil.
LMAO That was hysterical. Quite an accurate praody, with all the half-a$$ed truths and spinning lies.
LOL
I need to stop smoking like a chimney while freeping. :-)
Have peace now, until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!
And you also... sleep well! Open a window ;~D
Spot on!
And just think...if Gandalf hadn't gone riding around the countryside to find some riders (who come back and silhouette themselves on the ridge and warn the orcs to turn their pikes to the flanks to increase Rohan's casualties), he could have easily popped that suicide bomber and the wall would have held. Gandalf's irresponsibility is the reason for the fall of Helm's Deep!
Oh wait. That was the movie. Wonderfully modified from the books, where we miss the whole CONSERVATIVE part at the end, the Scouring of the Shire!
GRR...don't get me started. hehehe
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