Tag Archives: Lord of the Rings

Great moments in Democrat journalism

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Via Real Science.

UPDATE:  There’s certainly merit to this argument, but Bri’s too stupid to be satan.

AND:  He’s been suspended w/o pay for six months. Which, in his case, is about $5 million. “By his actions, Brian has jeopardized the trust millions of Americans place in NBC News.” Ha, ha. Yeah, he’s single-handedly threatening the whole house-of-cards.

This is refreshing: “In a recent Pew Research Center survey, only 27 percent of respondents could correctly identify Williams from his photograph, and only 3 percent could say what he did for a living.” Thank you, Internet!

Has the day come?

A day may come when the courage of men fails,
when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.
An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down,
but it is not this day!
This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth,
I bid you stand, Men of the West!
– Aragorn’s speech, before the Black Gates

With our feckless, lying president in full retreat from the Iranian and Islamist threats, it would seem the courage of Western men has failed.  Certainly with the London decapitation in full view of a crowd of Brit men— including unarmed and apparently cowardly cops– when only a woman had the cojones to confront the killers. While the cops watched from far enough away to be safe. Disgusting.

Via Sgt. Mom at Chicago Boyz

UPDATE:  OTOH, the authorities moved swiftly to punish a few Brits making connections between the Woolwich murder and Islam on Twitter and Facebook, while pretending to know nothing about such a connection.

Similar, as Richard Fernandez notes, to the WaPo pretending that the Muslim rioters in Sweden are merely “youths” protesting the “underprivilege” of the “foreign born.” The WaPo “knows what it means and we are supposed to know what it means but we are not supposed to admit that we know what it means.”

While Swedish police, using a “non-intervention policy” with the rioters,act to stop people defending their homes and vehicles.

Dumbledore and Gandalf

Mr. Boy and I have decided, having finished the Harry Potter books the same week as we saw the third installment of the Lord of the Rings movie, that Dumbledore, like Gandalf, will probably return to life more powerful than before–in the seventh book in the series due out this summer. Indeed, Mr. B. points out a similarity between Frodo and Harry. They both are marked, Harry with the forehead thunderbolt, and Frodo with the shoulder wound from the Nazgul. Both ache when the enemy is near.

The Two Towers

Watched this second installment of the Lord of the Rings movie on DVD tonight with Mom and Mr. B., who had never seen it before. It got very confusing in the middle, until I realized it had been substantially changed from the book. Didn’t seem to bother the boy as much as it annoyed me. Faramir wouldn’t let Frodo go, as he did in the book, but took him to Gondor, instead. At one point Sam asks "What are we doing here, Mr. Frodo?" It was part of a rhetorical speech written for the movie Sam, but it was funny in light of their detour. Perhaps it had to be done to make even a three hour movie, but it’s an example of why I think of movies as far more confining than books. They compress your imagination, rather than releasing it as a good book does.

King of The Mark

Mr. Boy gets an hour of downtime after school and snack, before I put him to his first grade homework (and usually have to get involved), and I always stay away for that period, unless he wants to talk or something. But today I happened by just as he was lifting his favorite plastic sword in the air and bellowing into the mirror "I am Theoden, King of the Mark!"

Only tonight, in our bedtime reading from The Return of the King, did we learn that while we lost Theoden in the siege of Gondor to the evil King of the Nazgul, Mr. B.’s favorite character, Aragorn, is secretly the new king of Gondor. I’ve promised him he can watch the movie triology when we’re done with the books, even though the movies are PG-13, but I’ll be secretly sorry watching the actor who played Aragorn, remembering what a whimp he is in real life. But he did play it well. Mr. B. is mostly interested in the heroics and the weaponry and longs to see some Orc blood flow. Or so he says. You never know with six-year-old boys. One minute it’s blood-n-guts and the next they’re sucking on their fingers.

I loved the big smile on his face the first time he tried on his new cub scout uniform. He gets it.