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William Cloud Hicklin · 09-21-2023, 10:08 AM

The script blunders within the first 60 seconds: "Nine rings were gifted <gag!> to the race of Men, who above all else desire power." Malarkey! Purest rubbish! Cliche replacing Tolkien's own rather subtle thought!

Tolkien said, on many occasions and in many ways, that what Men desire above all else is immortality. He described the basic theme of LR as "Death, and the quest for Deathlessness." The Nine Rings and the Nazgul themselves are tied up in that! (Not to mention Numenor, and the Dead of Dunharrow, and and and....)

09-21-2023, 10:08 AM	#40
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	The script blunders within the first 60 seconds: "Nine rings were gifted <gag!> to the race of Men, who above all else desire power." Malarkey! Purest rubbish! Cliche replacing Tolkien's own rather subtle thought! Tolkien said, on many occasions and in many ways, that what Men desire above all else is immortality. He described the basic theme of LR as "Death, and the quest for Deathlessness." The Nine Rings and the Nazgul themselves are tied up in that! (Not to mention Numenor, and the Dead of Dunharrow, and and and....) __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.