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if you haven't seen lords of the ring, i suggest you to step back and come back to this journal after you have seen the movies.

i went to see lords of the ring: the return of the king on sunday, mannnnnnnnnnn...i cried a lot!...such a big leaker i am...anyway, since the story has ended, i can start reading teh books now. unfortunately i won't have any time for that very soon. i personally prefer to read the books first because usually reading allows me to use my imagination to visualize every element by myself while movies always let the director monopolises the visualizing process for me. that's not fun but yet interesting to compare mine and his/hers.

the last episode of this movie seems to reveal all the ideologies, everything becomes clear to me. these movies talk about nations, industrialization, naturalization, utopia, power, manipulation, classification and a lot more, up to whatever you would interpret.

here is my brief interpretation:

the relationship between sam and frodo is depicted as friends from the first two episodes but in the last episode, the director shifts this relationship to be servant and master. why so? that could be because the real relationship that the two have is a relationship between servant and master but in order to avoid global conflict, the director has decided to slightly change it a little bit. hence, that gives more positive bias towards frodo, the main character, as well. therefore, he decided to change it back to what it really is in the last episode because he really has to distinguish the utopians from others.

who are those utopians and why?...the utopians are those who at the end travel away out to the seven seas. although the film might suggest that they are going to die away, but what i see is that they are leaving the middle earth or the high earth (utopia). they are qualified because they have proved that their stage of mind, their intellect and their knowledge are high enough. which means, they have no more greed, they understand others, they have become neutral, they don't manipulate others and so forth.

for the debate upon industrialization and naturalization are presented clearly in the second episode, i woudl say that it's not always true that naturalization is better, it's just the way we have been taught to believe that way (even me, i do believe that nature is better).

for nations and power...it's very clear...the ring represents power...it doesn't always suck up anybody's mind...it's also something that hard to let go. even someone who just has good intention to help, like sam....when he has the ring with him...it's hard to let go....not becoz he feels that he's empowered but becoz power makes him feels 'important', from an honest servant....becomes 'somebody'...that's why it's difficult to let go, and it's easier to just be honest and don't have power in hands, coz when he hasn't tasted the feeling of becoming someone special then he has no idea how it's just, just keeps his mind straight to his duty.

yeah...just my opinions, and i can go on for pages and pages...but i rather stop here and may be you can share your ideas with me...

miss you all...

i am too tired to compose it in a mroe sophisticated way, actually i could have written it in a much much more deep and better ways but that's all i can do tonite..sorry guys...

I've read the first book of the LoTR series.. it's very good.. although it's thick in size, it has a lot of detail to read through and like all books, it's slightly different to the movie

I recommend reading it! (if you have time )

I was taught at school by the sone of the author (who was mad) who claimed that his father was totally mad! Allegedly large pieces of the books were written in the classroom I was sitting in...I doubt this is true but who knows/cares? I think most of what u say is spot on with one exception.............I would say that the real hero of the book is not Frodo but Sam. He starts very much as the friend but servant. he ends as much much more. This is only my opinion. I can be wrong.

no one can eb wrong in reading film text, as long as you ghaev strong supportive arguments. anyhow, even if ones don't have any it's still all right because it is individual...that's where i would stand.

by the way, Sam is the hero...yes, and what that matter really reflects the status quo is that it's not always Mr. president that leads a country to succeed but his crews.

After I finished the first book and stated the second one... i had the stop the half way.. found its boring... not quite my type of book and also the Two Towers movie was a bit boring as well, just to me though.

Anyway the Return of the King was done pretty good. Somehow, I cant started reading the third book unless I finish the second one!!!