I am thankful for the LOTR'S books. I am also thankful for the
shows.
For the books and shows have so many meanings, It showed courage, love,
coming together for a common goal. I like this one, because coming
together for a common goal you draw strength from each other.
It
also showed that different races can come together and work together.
In todays world we need more of this. Everyone wants to fight each
other, and it is sad because most of the time everyone is fighting for
the same goal. Gimli and Legolas started out fighting over the
difference of their race but by the end of the movie they were best of
friends and in the books they went off together. If only the world
would take a lesson from those two. Then maybe we were not have so much
violence and hate with in the different cultures and even among
ourselves. In the EE TTT when Faramir and his man had capture Frodo and
Sam and he is looking at the young men he had just kill he made this
statement, "This war will make corrupts of us all." And how true is
that
statement in todays world? Wars are breaking out all over today. And
for most of the wars that are being fought is for freedom, but everyone
is fighting against each other.
It showed them struggling in
life choices which is something that we all to.Frodo struggle with the
ring and knowing what must be done. Boromir struggle of wanting the
ring. Aragorn struggle of who he is. And how many of us has struggled
with something in our lives? In the EE of FOTR when Aragorn is kneeling
at his mothers statue and Elrond comes up and tells him that he is the
only one left in that blood line and Aragorn says "I have never wanted
that power" and then Elrond tells him that there is no other. How many
of us as felt the weight of the world of our shoulders? Or when Frodo
tells Sam that the ring is his task and his alone. How many of us as
felt that we must do something because no other can do it? Or Boromir
wanting the Ring and making an oath to help Frodo but the power of the
ring is over taking him. How many of us felt that we know what is right
and must do but something with more power is controlling us?
It
showed the pain of those who dead.Theoden pain at the death of his son
Theodred when he said,"No parent should have to bury their child" as a
mother I agree with I should not out live my kids. Denethor when
Boromir died and when he thought that Faramir had died.
But
most of all it showed that any thing can be done as long as there is
hope and faith and you believe. How many times throughout the
movies and
books did we see those simple words "There is still hope?'" or "There
is always hope?"
Of the sadness that is going on in the world
today I can alway fine peace in J.R.R. Tolkien books and movies. In
Middle Earth there was also many wars and people that fought for the
cause of freedom. It is like Gandalf told Frodo "There is more then
evil at work here, Some that died deserved death and some that died
deserved life, can you give it to them Frodo?" How true is that today?
Yes many lessons to be learned and I am so thankful for the boards and
the coming together of some many different cultures.
