The Tolkien Coming of Age Club

[mark12_30]

Galadriel, I know what you mean about child actors. I do have high hopes for EJW, however. He does seem to have a good head on his shoulders.

For that (seemingly rather small) subset of Barrow-Downers who are interested in prayer and in Tolkien both, I think it's appropriate to pray that the actors absorb the very best of their characters and take that with them. Readers have that golden opportunityhoefully the actors are not denied it by their own attitudes or by anything else, but with open heart and mind, recieve the very best that Tolkien's work has to offer each of them.

So many sense a challenge, or a call, to something higher in the professor's Legendarium, and so many do respond heartily. My highest hopes of seeing that manifested among the actors lie in Wood and Astin, for a number of reasons; but I do hope that for them all, and think that many others will to some degree. Far from it being beyond their reach, I think Tolkien by his art makes the possibility accessable.

[ April 15, 2003: Message edited by: mark12_30 ]