The indecisive Nazgul - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

The Silver-shod Muse · 12-19-2002, 01:30 PM

Maybe the "closer look" at the Nazgul's steed was supposed to set up Eowyn's slaying in RotK. Then again, maybe not. <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> I came away from this movie convinced that PJ does not understand nobility. At all. He just doesn't get it. Where is the nobility in either of his movies? It's not there. Aragorn doesn't have it; Frodo doesn't have it; Elrond doesn't have it; even Gandalf doesn't have it. And Faramir has been dragged through the GUTTER. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>That's it! I knew there was something very deeply and intrinsically wrong with all of it, from beginning to end. The Rohirrim, Gandalf the White, Faramir, they've all been robbed of that high beauty and melancholy elation that belongs to myth. The Elves don't have it - they're just a pack of machines with pretty armor. I do think that Aragorn has a touch of it. Despite PJ, Viggo definitely lends a sort of transcendence and grace to Aragorn's movie character.

12-19-2002, 01:30 PM	#10
The Silver-shod Muse Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: The shoulder of a poet, TX Posts: 388	Maybe the "closer look" at the Nazgul's steed was supposed to set up Eowyn's slaying in RotK. Then again, maybe not.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> I came away from this movie convinced that PJ does not understand nobility. At all. He just doesn't get it. Where is the nobility in either of his movies? It's not there. Aragorn doesn't have it; Frodo doesn't have it; Elrond doesn't have it; even Gandalf doesn't have it. And Faramir has been dragged through the GUTTER. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>That's it! I knew there was <I>something</I> very deeply and intrinsically wrong with all of it, from beginning to end. The Rohirrim, Gandalf the White, Faramir, they've all been robbed of that high beauty and melancholy elation that belongs to myth. The Elves don't have it - they're just a pack of machines with pretty armor. I do think that Aragorn has a touch of it. <I>Despite</I> PJ, Viggo definitely lends a sort of transcendence and grace to Aragorn's movie character. __________________ "'You," he said, "tell her all. What good came to you? Do you rejoice that Maleldil became a man? Tell her of your joys, and of what profit you had when you made Maleldil and death acquainted.'" -Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis