Shadowfaxfan
Ossiriand
Mar 10 2007, 5:54pm
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I just looked up Dragon Con
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and it would be a lot closer but it is during the height of Hurricane Season - scary-.Just about every time I plan something for those months it always gets canceled. When my daughter was little we canceled her birthday party almost every year it is Aug 25. I just went back to your profile because I am bad with regular names never mind the Elvish or Tolkien one's and I saw the photo. Which one is you? It looks like a group of nice women and men { almost didn't see the guys in the back}.
The repetition, the doubling and the long strands of interconnected narrative all mean something. They say that life is a series of cycles, and that we will likely meet the same kinds of archetypal guardians, opponents and allies at various stages along the way. But the nature of the conflicts changes as you age and grow over the span of an epic. Reading 'The Lord of the Rings' in my 20s, I was inspired by its idealism, but also terrified by its vision of middle life and old age as a patient, plodding struggle against the mundane grinding of evil. Seeing the movie meant something else to me from my current perspective, around the corner of age fifty, reminding me that the raw intensity of youthful dreams still has purity and power. At the same time, I felt the death of comrades in the movie keenly, for comrades have started to fall around me, and I looked to the story for the courage to continue the struggle without them.~As the legend says, 'One Ring to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.' We were certainly bound in the darkness, me and that afternoon's audience for the first chapter of 'The Lord of the Rings,' fellow travelers on a long journey together, seeking meaning for our shadowed world in the mirror of a myth, just as humans have always done.~Christopher Vogler
(This post was edited by Shadowfaxfan on Mar 10 2007, 6:00pm)
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