Generally speaking, it is a big movie without much emotional depth. The cruelty of the war and the psychological trauma it brought to Tolkien’s generation has not been reflected well, but I still like Tolkien struggling to stand up and look at the scene of the devastated battlefield. Mordor is full of sight
Tolkien loves the sea so much, his novels are full of what he calls sea-longing. Tolkien also said in his personal letters that he often dreamed of huge waves in his dreams; Earendil, the originator of the mythological system of Middle-earth, was a navigator. "The Lord of the Rings" is full of yearning for the sea, such as "The Lord of the Rings" The poem recited by Legolas:
To the Sea , to the Sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West, west away, the round sun is falling. Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling, The voices of my people that have gone before me?
In the film, the element of sea is not mentioned at all, so I just show the audience a bunch of images of killing, killing, monsters and the like? Can you grasp the essence?
And Edith danced for Tolkien in a glade overgrown with hemlock, which inspired Tolkien to create a love story between human Beren and the fairy princess Luthien Tinuviel, like Tolkien’s epic work " What it says in the Silmarillion:
The leaves were long, the grass was green, The hemlock-umbels tall and fair, And in the glade a light was seen Of stars in shadow shimmering. Tinúviel was dancing there To music of a pipe unseen, And light of stars was in her hair, And in her raiment glimmering.
But in the film Edith is dancing under a tree, what about my wild celery bushes? Can you restore it a bit? After all, such an important detail for supporting fans!
And, as Tolkien said, the core theme of "Lord of the Rings" is death. This may not be realized by watching the movie, you have to read the original work. The original book "The Lord of the Rings" is full of laments about the passing of beautiful things, whether it is the ancient heroic age, the world of elves, or the disbanding fellowship. But in Hollywood movies, I might not dare to say so heavy. I can only mention some themes of friendship and courage.
My favorite is the clips of the three good friends of the TCBS team, especially when Tolkien returned after the war. Reading the letter written to him by Geoffery Smith, I was so touched, the original text of the following letter:
"My chief consolation is that if I am scuppered tonight there will still be left a member [of our School group] to voice what I dreamed and what we all agreed upon. For the death of one of its members cannot, I am determined, dissolve [the group]. Death can make us loathsome and helpless as individuals, but it cannot put an end to the immortal four! May God bless you my dear John Ronald and may you say things I have tried to say long after I am not there to say them if such be my lot."
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