well, to tell you guys the truth, i'm getting just a little miffed with how everyone takes J.R.R.T.'s work and tries to make it fit into whatever they are trying to do... i mean, do we really think that J.R.R.T. meant to write these books to make a statement about the war on terrorism? may he rest in peace, he was a genius coming up with languages and all the other stuff he imagined for the books, and the writing is terrific, but i don't think he was a prophet or psychic, which is what these people are claiming if they say that's what his work meant... he couldn't have known about all the things that people are comparing his work to. everyone wants his books to fit in with their religion, political stance, or whatever, but look, he just wrote the books...if we could go back in time, maybe we could ask him what he "meant" them to mean, but we can't.
that isn't to say that some of his thoughts are not clearly evident in his writing, you can hardly write something, and then not have your own views prominent throughout it...but come on. i think people are taking it just a little too far...
and all these people that have only seen the movies, do you think that this is a new thing? they just came up with this whole trilogy after 9-11? the movies were practically already done before that even happened! (not to mention that the books were first published almost 50 years ago!) sheesh.
people see what they want to see, it's true, but you can't prove that his writtings were meant to make a politcal statement, i mean, please! me, I'm a Christian, so of course i'd like to compare his writings to the Bible, and what I believe, and i see some great allegories, but that's not to say that that is what he meant to happen. and i don't go around writing articles about how this represents the need of war or whatever. (and there is a difference between attacking iraq and saving all life from eternal darkness.) can't people just enjoy his work? why must it always come down to politics. for that matter, why must it always come down to what is happening RIGHT NOW? in twenty years from now, you just know that someone is going to be saying that he meant his stories to represent whatever war, or catastrophe is happening them. people, there is a possability that not everything represents what YOU are going through. of course we'll see the correspondance and similarities, but...that doesn't mean he was trying to make a statement about us...
and about the above artycle, everyone loves heroism. everyone wants to be a hero... and just because he makes similaries between vikings or whatever, doesn't mean he's making some pagan comparison to the nazis... (?!) am i right? isn't that what he said? okay, sorry, i've rambled. i doubt any of what i wrote makes any sense anyway...
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