Why a Ring? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Neferchoirwen · 12-15-2002, 12:17 PM

Funny this was brought up...
I just finished watching the appendices at the expanded version, and all those ring close-ups gave me enough creeps for Halloween..(it's also like too much camera focus on a knife...makes you think someone's gonna get stabbed).

The hand itself is a symbol control...it's a body part that does most of a person's actions. And having a ring on one the fingers emphasize a power that means "hey, what I do is more important that what you normally do." So when Sauron created the One Ring, he had one purpose in mind: to control Middle Earth. A crown symbolises too little, and a weapon can be upgraded, undermining its own power.

[ December 16, 2002: Message edited by: Neferchoirwen ]

12-15-2002, 12:17 PM	#23
Neferchoirwen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: RtR: 483.3 miles, Fords of Bruinen Posts: 512	Funny this was brought up... I just finished watching the appendices at the expanded version, and all those ring close-ups gave me enough creeps for Halloween..(it's also like too much camera focus on a knife...makes you think someone's gonna get stabbed). The hand itself is a symbol control...it's a body part that does most of a person's actions. And having a ring on one the fingers emphasize a power that means "hey, what I do is more important that what you normally do." So when Sauron created the One Ring, he had one purpose in mind: to control Middle Earth. A crown symbolises too little, and a weapon can be upgraded, undermining its own power. [ December 16, 2002: Message edited by: Neferchoirwen ] __________________ On really romantic nights of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion. ~Speed Levitch http://crevicesofsilence.blogspot.com/