It has come to my attention that many of you have yet to see Lord of the Rings (I know SY hasn’t seen it, I’m not sure how many others) and others are not familiar with some of the quotes. Now many of you that haven’t seen Lord of the Rings, you may be thinking “That is not for me. Just mindless gore and fighting and killing and fighting and stuff and fantasy creatures and fighting and stuff. I’m more of a realist. I like real stuff like cakes and mushrooms.” (I’m assuming numerous people haven’t watched it.) Well then you’d be wrong. Not on the fact that you are a realist; you may well and truly be one, but rather the fact that Lord of the Rings is just about bashing of mindless orcs or uruk hai (who are no mindless orcs. Their skin is thick and shields are broad.) It is a story of hope, love, courage and other stuff. I know that the fact that I usually say that about a lot of things, but you just gotta trust me on this one. So to illustrate my point, I’ve handpicked some of my favourite scenes to talk about. Yeah so if you don’t want the movie ruined or whatever spoiler alert blah blah blah. Anyways, it is just the dialogue, but even then you’ll already understand how beautifully the tale corresponds to life. Having said this, the dialogue is merely a fraction of the entire viewing experience, because Peter Jackson complements it beautifully with your favourite actors such as Viggo Mortensen, Hugo Weaving and the guy who acts as Samwise along with possibly the greatest soundtrack ever compiled. It is definitely up there with Titanic. No joke.
Anyways onto the scene for today. So this is right near the end of the second movie, where the city of Osgiliath has been taking, and Frodo and Samwise are just alive and are sitting on the floor wasted and on the brink of tears. So as all good sidekicks, bodyguards or in this case, gardeners, should do, Samwise breaks into monologue. He is referring to Frodo and his seemingly impossible journey to destroy the ring and restore order and peace to middle earth etc etc.
Sam: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights, we shouldn’t even be here.
But we are.
It’s like the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. Sometimes you didn’t want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was? When so much bad had happened.
But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even the darkness, must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why.
But I think Mr Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folks in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding onto something.
Having read that, tell me you don’t want to watch it now. That is unbelievable. It’s the kind of thing you hear and realise is so true and that we should hold onto hope or love or whatever knowing that bad times will pass, but like most awesome sayings and probably life in general, easier said than done.
And I can’t resist so I’ll slide in Faramir (David Welham I think) being a downright badass:
Faramir: I think at last we understand each other, Frodo Baggins.
Random Guy: You know the laws of this country, the lays of your father. If you let them go, your life will be forfeit.
Faramir: Then it is forfeit. Release them.
Too, too awesome. We should have a movie night just to watch all three. Or actually nights, cos it’ll take a couple of months to finish each ones. They are very long, but as you’ll realise when you watch them, it is like Titanic in the way you don’t want it to end kinda, it doesn’t matter how long it goes, because it is that good.
See you all around sometimes hopefully. Supposedly Law Abiding Citizen is unnecessarily gory.
