Comparison: Jesus And The Lord Of The Ring

he person that I would talk about Jesus and The Lord of the Ring is my dad who is the non-believer. I am not going back to my country on the Christmas break but if I was going, I would watch The Lord of the Ring movie with my dad on weekend, and I would talk to him about Jesus while we are watching the moive. This is because my dad and I haven’t watched a movie together for a while even though we love watching movie together, and I feel like I need to teach him about Jesus and God since my dad knows nothing about Jesus and the Christian story. My dad actually does not like a religion and he is not interested in Christianity. He was born in a really poor family. None of his family members or friends were Christians or interested in Christianity. …show more content…
For this reason, I would try to teach him about Jesus while we are watching the movie. One of the themes of the Lord of the Ring is a temptation. The movie begins with Bilbo’s strong temptation over the Ring ,and Frodo was also tempted several times by the Ring on the way to Rivendell. When Bilbo was about to leave the Shire, he did not want to give up the Ring although Gandalf told him to let the Ring go. As a result, they had an arguement about the Ring, and consequently the temptation of Bilbo turned him to evil and he yelled at his friend. While we are watching this scene, I would tell him that Bilbo shows human’s characteristics in the movie and the story of temptation in the