[lbo-talk] USA 2003

[Devine, James]

one thing not mentioned in this discussion of THE LORD OF THE RINGS is that the bad guys in Tolkein all seem to be dark or "swarthy," while the good guys are light or "fair." 

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Jim Devine jdevine at lmu.edu &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

 
> CB: Mordor is sort of like New York-WashingtonDC,  the center 
> of the evil
> empire.
> The top bad wizard in Mordor has all the rings but one. If he 
> gets the last
> one he'll really control the whole world.  The plot is on how 
> the bad guys
> in Mordor are trying to get the last ring and how the good 
> guys, especially
> one Hobbit Frodo,  is trying to destroy the last ring. I 
> think that can only
> be do  in Mordor or something, so of course they have to _go_ 
> to Mordor.
> Right Dennis ?