i think the same like you ent! (but i still like Queen Arwen better ...)

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I revisited AU on Jan 14th after an almost 10-year break! The nostalgia..!

In the Fellowship movie Galadriel is such an inspriration. She has so much insight when she speaks to Frodo. "To bear a ring of power is to be alone. This task was appointed to you. And if you do not find a way...no one will."

The words she speaks to Frodo, she speaks to all of us.
Again and again in these books JRR Tolkien speaks to us in powerful ways about what life is about and about our resonse to it.

Frodo answers, "Then I know what I must do...its just...I am afraid to do it." And aren't there things in all our lives that fill us with fear, that we must overcome, or no one will. She says to Frodo at last, "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future." And we all can find a way past our fear and if we press forward to the task, come what may.

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"If you do not find a way, no one will."

thats awesomely TRUE what you said!!!

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I revisited AU on Jan 14th after an almost 10-year break! The nostalgia..!

LOL it was a joke...lol. i know you respect him! yeah, she sent the elves to help, that WAS GOOD! it was a joke...

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I revisited AU on Jan 14th after an almost 10-year break! The nostalgia..!

There is much to learn from every character in LotR. And different characters and events strike each of us in powerful ways. What make hits me emotionally sometimes is not what moves you.

But I understand the emotion of what you said SAW. You were profoundly touched by Boromirs death, even to the point of lashing out at the story line. I have been there! But I believe that Tolkien did nothing in his trilogy that wasn't extremely well thought out and done for a specific reason. His story line is not haphazard. It is so deep that it boggles my mind sometimes!
And Eärlinde Elensar.... I appreciate your response to what I said about Galadriel too!

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I agree with what ya wrote on the top of the page Sinbearer, I love what she's saying there. I has actually helped me a lot in real life

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It has helped me and thrilled me too.

I believe there is a reason that these books attract you and me and so many…draw us. That reason lies beyond our surface responses to the actions of characters that win our hearts. There are deeper lessons about the things that we yearn for most in life.

As I have said, I am simple blown away by the depth of Tolkien’s books. It would take longer than I have here to attempt to explain how complex, multi woven and meaningful are their plots and storylines, because, deeper than the many, more obvious lessons that run throughout the books, is a complex parallel of the inner journey that each of us must take if we are to find our true selves and transcendent meaning in our lives.

I feel like very few authors have succeeded in creating masterpieces such as these. With the exception of CS Lewis, no twentieth-century writer more masterfully married the enchantment of fantasy with the enrichment of faith. The LotR are like a meal with the nourishment of meat and vegetables but the taste of cake and candy. Both the dreams of fantasy and the promise of a better life invade the imagination at the same time, baptizing it with wonderful and unexpected effects. The problem, of course, is that we rarely associate pleasure with nourishment. And the LotR are such good stories, we resist the notion that they allegorize the great truths of life.

I think probably the most powerful thing about them is that they blindside you…take you off guard, surprising you with pleasurable and captivating thoughts and truths that you would not have taken notice of at all before. The effect on the heart is a whiff of true delight.

That has been the experience of my boys and I so far on our journey into the LotR. We have entered into the experience of the great truths of life rather than merely exploring their tenets. And along the way, we have crossed a great frontier that is awakening a new, more vibrant life.

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"If you do not find a way, no one will."

My opinion on galadril was that she was very pretty, but mystrious. My first impression is that she semmed very nice, graceful, and queenly. She is one of my fave character!!!!

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*agrees with Sinbearer* hey that's the way I've always felt as well. You expressed exactly what I also think.

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Actually, She never sent elves to Helm's Deep, because they never came. I think your talking about the movie not the book.

I thought she was inspiring in the movie, but she creeped me out at first in the book. I grew to like her though.

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Capt. Jack: Shoot him and cut out his tongue! Then shoot his tongue!..and trim that scraggly beard.

yAAAy! The <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2007/tc20071218_443372.htm">Hobbit movie</a> is back on!!! Movie buffs get excited!

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yes she said very inspiring things in the movie, I think it expressed her wisdom very well.

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Her wisdom was deep indeed! Deep enough to fill my mind with wonder.

"Good night my friends!" said Galadriel, "Sleep in peace! Do not trouble your hearts overmuch with thought of the road tonight. Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet, though you do not see them. Good night!"

I could contemplate that a long while! What a lady!

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ya! but i think that is y PJ made he so mystical, she will always make uss wonder and we will watch it over and over again so there will be more dvd sales!! lol, jkjk, but the awesome part of her is that she keeeps everyone watching and wanting to see what happens next!

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Lady of the Golden Wood, Galadriel