Posted on 12/23/2013 3:49:39 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Tolkien was a devout Catholic who wrote to his son that the greatest thing on earth was to go to church and worship God.
Characterizations were shallow, story was flat, WAY too much time toward the end devoted to the crashing, slashing fight scenes all too common in movies across the board (which always cranks up for the last half hour or so).
We loved all 4 of the previous movies. This was very disappointing.
Ditto!
I read that Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews both liked it.I liked it.
The story, however, is very serious and the issues deep — although the presentation is light-hearted. It has to do with alcoholism and its effect on the family.
The in-your-face faggots can have your support.
But thanks for trying to help, Mr. Tolerance! I got a nice little chuckle out of your bizarre sanctimony.
communism is thicker amongst those lost souls that worship it than any other thing in their miserable lives.
“Tolkien was NOT religious you are confusing him with his contemporary C.S. Lewis”
You are so unbelievably wrong. You seem to know nothing of which you speak. Tolkien was a devout Roman Catholic and helped convert Lewis to Christianity. J.R.R. Tolkien even wrote that: “The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work.
I knew those things about Tolkien. But you said it more eloquently than I could have.
As far as the other guy’s grammar. I find myself making the same mistakes over and over, especially when typing furiously or, as now, allowing an iphone to correct for me. Ugh.
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