tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11789157.post7050836296233310931..comments2024-02-14T05:39:29.497-06:00Comments on HELL BURNS: MOVIES: "THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED ADVENTURE" (PART ONE)Sr. Helena Burns, fsphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196121481873845379noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11789157.post-77775850331044479322013-03-06T09:15:23.302-06:002013-03-06T09:15:23.302-06:00Terrific post. I amazed. I really like your post.....Terrific post. I amazed. I really like your post....hillwalking in killarneyhttp://www.19thgreen-bb.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11789157.post-62573650061604681462013-02-07T06:30:52.721-06:002013-02-07T06:30:52.721-06:00This is interesting. Where to find these products ...This is interesting. Where to find these products please?<br />Printing Brochureshttp://www.promodisc.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11789157.post-86289132037327728032013-01-10T01:28:12.272-06:002013-01-10T01:28:12.272-06:00Hobbit unexpected advaenture part 2 is described h...Hobbit unexpected advaenture part 2 is described here. Know all about it<br />DVD printinghttp://www.summittechnology.com.aunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11789157.post-28811687807415122912013-01-05T09:27:39.357-06:002013-01-05T09:27:39.357-06:00Just one correction. J. R. R. Tolkien helped to tr...Just one correction. J. R. R. Tolkien helped to translate the original Jerusalem Bible from 1966 not the New Jerusalem Bible of 1985. mike7uphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07291944380004321907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11789157.post-3633702538930494152013-01-03T13:08:50.386-06:002013-01-03T13:08:50.386-06:00Dear AmeriCeltCatholic,
Thanks for clarification!...Dear AmeriCeltCatholic,<br /><br />Thanks for clarification!I was a big confused by that in the film (orcs/goblins). Do u think film separated them? Also just read that Jackson used supplementary Tolkien's Hobbit backstory material to augment Hobbit story (that's also how they can get 3 movies out of it). Do you agree with this move?<br />Thank you!Sr. Helena Burns, fsphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09196121481873845379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11789157.post-21192453298759646672013-01-03T12:55:24.298-06:002013-01-03T12:55:24.298-06:00The movie wasn't bad -- much better than the e...The movie wasn't bad -- much better than the egregious character assassination in the LOTR films -- but it has several problems. As said in the comments, the scene between Bilbo and Gollum was excellent, and is pivotal for the entire larger storyline of the four books.<br /><br />Small point, I suppose, but among the many inaccuracies in the Hobbit film is the implication that orcs and goblins are two different sorts of creatures. Tolkien makes clear that "goblin" is just a colloquial common name for "orc". Because this was originally a children's story, he used "goblin" in all but one place to describe them, but they are not two difference species.CMMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12727231063817877577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11789157.post-24453944389510920622013-01-01T16:58:47.647-06:002013-01-01T16:58:47.647-06:00Shana did get the fellowship to Florence! She'...Shana did get the fellowship to Florence! She's in NYC right now, going to the visa office on Thurs to get her student visa. Please pray that she gets it with no difficulties - apparently Italian visa agents can throw up unexpected roadblocks!<br /><br />Btw, I'm also in the same PhD program as Sarah Maple - the Institute for Theology, Imagination & the Arts at St Andrews. (I'm doing my dissertation on the ethics of the artist-audience relationship in the theatre, and the Eucharist as a model for building communion [e.g., the necessity of vertical communion for horizontal communion].)<br /><br />Hey, if you send me your e-mail (I'm ccematson AT gmail DOT com), I'll send you information on the project for artists interested in consecrated life that Shana and I have been discussing!Cole Matsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13954574912456427100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11789157.post-28011305222378359642012-12-31T01:13:51.387-06:002012-12-31T01:13:51.387-06:00Ha ha! Thanks for your insights, Cole! You LOTR ri...Ha ha! Thanks for your insights, Cole! You LOTR ring-heads are the best! 1) it just makes me laugh to hear the way they pronounce Smaug... 2) Apologies.<br />1) Yesssss. Mercy underlies LOTR... 2) Beautiful! I wanna read Joseph Pearce's book on the "secret meaning of the Hobbit..." Shana is such a talented artist! Did she get that fellowship thing to Florence? I hope so! She and I are Theology of the Body-heads, er, bodies. Blessed 2013!Sr. Helena Burns, fsphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09196121481873845379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11789157.post-27269817888029742852012-12-28T17:11:06.190-06:002012-12-28T17:11:06.190-06:00Two points:
1) The British actors say "SMAH...Two points: <br /><br />1) The British actors say "SMAH-OOG" (like "loud") because that's how Tolkien said to pronounce it. It's not "SMAWG" (like "smog"), the way we Americans tend to (incorrectly) pronounce it.<br /><br />2) Calling the "Riddles in the Dark" scene a "smaller plot point"!?!? It's THE pivotal scene of the movie, which sets all the rest of the LOTR (and following Hobbit films) in motion! It's also the best scene in the movie - one of the most perfectly executed scenes I've ever watched. SOMEBODY finally give Andy Serkis his Oscar!<br /><br />That said (by the person who went to see The Hobbit with an equally-rabid Tolkien fan who is also an FCJ Sister):<br /><br />1) Love the connection with the Necromancer and the Culture of Death. I think Tolkien would agree. Gandalf's speech to Frodo in LOTR about not being too willing to deal out death in judgment, and the connection he makes to the pity of Bilbo (as shown in The Hobbit), is, in contrast, the Culture of Life: Bilbo's small act mercy saves the lives of the peoples of Middle-earth. It is a conformation with and participation in the mercy of Christ.<br /><br />2) I strongly support and will continue to support the use of LOTR (and now The Hobbit), both in book and film form, as a resource for vocations groups. I also liked this young Jesuit's connection to the Call of the King meditation from the Second Week of the Spiritual Exercises:<br /><br />'Readers familiar with the St. Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises may recall the exercise entitled “The Call of the King,” from the beginning of the Second Week, while viewing Balin (the second-in-command Dwarf) tell the story of how he comes to follow Thorin: “…there is one I could follow…and one I could call king.”' (http://thejesuitpost.org/site/2012/12/the-hobbit-worth-watching/)<br /><br />And agreed: the lighting was AMAZING.<br /><br />(Btw, I found your blog today through a Skype call with Shana Smith. I hadn't realised you were the sister who supported her artistic work. Thanks, from a fellow Catholic artist interested in consecrated life!:-))<br /><br />ColeCole Matsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13954574912456427100noreply@blogger.com