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Lyta_Underhill · 02-14-2004, 02:08 PM

Perhaps it was dramatic tension, so the Ring would have long enough to utter its dying words..."what a world, what a world!" and something about "spoiling all its beautiful wickedness!" I swear, when the Movies forum DOES open, someone needs to start a topic on "Wizard of Oz" imagery in the theatrical ROTK! Many people have noticed how Frodo's waking scene in Minas Tirith (!) after Mount Doom bore a great resemblance to Dorothy's awakening scene back in Kansas. I'm sure there are more "homages" if we just look for them!

But seriously, the delay of the Ring's demise would seem to speak to resistance, the Ring resisting to the last its ordained fate. That would suggest some level of mythic "awareness" on the Ring's part, but it could also be just a material resistance, albeit a supernaturally charged "material."

Cheers!
Lyta (there's no place like home...there's no place like home...clicks mouse three times and takes her leave, or makes her entrance, whichever you please!)

02-14-2004, 02:08 PM	#6
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 841	What a world... Perhaps it was dramatic tension, so the Ring would have long enough to utter its dying words..."what a world, what a world!" and something about "spoiling all its beautiful wickedness!" I swear, when the Movies forum DOES open, someone needs to start a topic on "Wizard of Oz" imagery in the theatrical ROTK! Many people have noticed how Frodo's waking scene in Minas Tirith (!) after Mount Doom bore a great resemblance to Dorothy's awakening scene back in Kansas. I'm sure there are more "homages" if we just look for them! But seriously, the delay of the Ring's demise would seem to speak to resistance, the Ring resisting to the last its ordained fate. That would suggest some level of mythic "awareness" on the Ring's part, but it could also be just a material resistance, albeit a supernaturally charged "material." Cheers! Lyta (there's no place like home...there's no place like home...clicks mouse three times and takes her leave, or makes her entrance, whichever you please!) __________________ “…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”