Aragorn

Most people will simply refuse to read, or have anything to do with, anything deemed satanic. However, if you have read The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien you technically have. The Lord of the Rings was banned for its “fantasy ideas”, “sacrilegious beliefs”, and its “satanic ideas on witchcraft and evil”. I personally love the movies to death, and do not believe the book should be banned from view of the public. I don’t believe the book should be banned for reasons of: the book is far from…

mountain to meet Moses and Elijah during the Transfiguration, to teach them the ways of God (Good News Bible, Matthew 17.1-3, 21.1-11). Frodo, on the other hand, neither leads nor purposefully teaches. Tolkien’s more statured characters, Gandalf then Aragorn respectfully, lead Frodo on his journey to Mount Doom. The journey inevitably proceeds to the departure of Frodo from his guides. Once guideless, Frodo and his lone companion, Samwise Gamgee, are stuck wondering the barren slopes and stone…

An Analysis of Music in the Creation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth Music is a part of daily life, and it makes up enormous sections of cultures around the world. J.R.R. Tolkien, in creating his own world, made certain that the aspect of music was still deeply engrained within his fictional works. Music is used to further deepen the plots, enhance the characters’ emotions, and to give life to a world that to him was as precious as our own. So the question arises: In what ways and to what…

of legitimacy based on birthright, in keeping with the traditionalist notions of its source material. The text deals with the power struggles that engulf its invented world. Of great importance to this tense political climate is the ascension of Aragorn to his rightful place on the throne of Gondor. Consequently, the film goes to great lengths to represent the illegitimate authorities of Middle-Earth in a negative light, namely Denethor, the steward of Gondor. Denethor’s adverse qualities are…

Henry VIII used princely magnificence as a way to impress and gain parity over his rivals and that can be seen through the plentiful sums of money he spent in order to build and redesign structures such as the Hampton Court and Nonsuch Palace as well as spending vast amounts of entertainment, clothes, jewellery and art. In this essay, I will be looking at the materialistic obsessions of Henry VIII, his court during his reign and how he used princely magnificent to gain parity over his rivals.…

December 17th, 2014 was a very important day for many people around the world. On that day Peter Jackson released the third and final Hobbit movie, The Battle of Five Armies. It was almost exactly thirteen years before, (December 19th, 2001) that he released the first movie of The Lord of the Rings trilogy; The Fellowship of the Ring. This was a huge moment for all the fans of J.R.R Tolkien’s books, because The Battle of Five Armies is the last part of the whole series. Although the Hobbit…

hallucinogenic plants. The hobbits used hallucinogenic drugs and this may have started the movement to reading the story. The environmentalism view of Tolkien can be seen in The Lord of the Rings, when Saruman destroys forests to create his army. Gandalf and Aragorn then lead the forces of good including those who lived in the forests to destroy the evil Saruman. He also wrote about feminism in The Lord of the Rings. Lady Éowyn of Rohan was struggling to overcome the limits of patriarchal…

language, likely at convention, such as Comic Con. Some actors manage to retain the language, but they often lose their fluency over time because they rarely have the opportunity to speak it. For instance, Viggo Mortensen and Liv Tyler, who portrayed Aragorn and Arwen in The Lord of The Rings were still able to hold a basic conversation in Elvish years after the filming had concluded. However, they both acknowledged that they were not as fluent as when they were in the midst of portraying their…

parts, adding this fantasy and adventure movie had lots of sword fighting. Everyone loves sword fighting, it is just really cool to watch and see how it all comes together and how it looks on the finished product. I especially like the part where Aragorn and Frodo were alone and Frodo’s sword began to glow, because the Uruk-hai were coming. This fight scene changed a lot in how the fellowship thought, because they had lost Boromir in this fight. It showed a lot of emotion when the fight ended…

As a child, risotto was my favorite dish that my mom, strictly following her father’s recipe, would make. Today, risotto has become an innately Italian dish. In most Italian restaurants, you will find at least one type of risotto on the menu. Strangely, despite it’s inherent Italian-ness, rice and risotto are relatively new introductions to Italian cuisine. Rice has a long history of domestication in Asia and was not brought to Italy for several thousand years after being domesticated (P. Huang…