The Hobbit - a philosophical review
An interesting new angle on the movie. http://www.bps.org.uk/news/hobbit-philosophical-review .
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This is the magic of tolkien, he helps us grow up with out us hardly realizing we are being shown the way to walk off into the white spaces of our own maps. And despite being a fairly rabid critic of PJ's TT and RotK, this works splendidly. good catch davem |
A little trouble with fundamental categories
Beginning an article on philosophy by confusing it with psychology sort of explains the uncritical mentality which can't differentiate a fan-fiction turkey like The Hobbit: Goblins and Dwarves from Peter Jackson's far better adaptation of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. What next: Sigmund Freud as Plato Baggins?
I've posted this reminder before, but it bears constant reiteration in the context of standard heroic quest literature: Quote:
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