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To: lurqer who wrote (20482)	1/2/2003 7:19:33 AM
From: Clappy	Read Replies (3) of 104157

Plan to see Two Towers later. I was amazed at the special effects. The opening scene with Gandolf amazed me. The theater was crowded so we had to take the third row center seats. As he fell I almost felt like I was falling with him. Whatta thrill ride! I had a big child-like smile on my face. Another big smile I had was when the Dwarf could not see over the wall during the final battle. The dude cracked me up. Here's something that wifey and I noticed. Perhaps you, Polver, Hoser, or ElvanaderRatter noticed it as well. Every actor in the movie had blue eyes or green eyes with the exception of the dwarf who had brown eyes. Was there some sort of symbolistic reason for that? Are they short of brown eyed actors? Are blue and green eye colored actors favored over brown? <Clappy reminds himself to go back and check some of the other movies he's watched recently to see if there is a conspiracy against brown eyed actors.> Back to the movie... Were the trees cool or what?! Sure wish I was able to observe everything the old tree dude was saying. Must have been a ton of symbolism in that. I could not soak in all the conversation due to the fact that I was trying to figure out why even the trees didn't have brown eyes. I was sort of disappointed that they even got into the fight. I guess that is how the book went, but why? Would the trees actually fight or would they be wiser? Okay so they were battling evil. But what made these creatures evil? Was it greed? Was it just because some mean wizard dude wanted them to? Would these things really make a group want to go out there and take over the mid-earth? I guess... The Romans tried. And Napolian tried. Hitler tried. And a few other evil groups have tried. They and their followers have always lost and good prevailed without the help of Mother Nature or trees or what ever. And was there some sort of symbolism when they destroyed the dam washing away the evil dudes with poor oral hygene? The water sorta filled in that circular area with the pillars or what ever they were. Here's another thing. If the evil dudes and the good guys all had similar battle techniques as we did back in medieval times, how come the King there never thought about boiling water or oil to combat the dudes storming the castle. Toss a little over the wall and your problem melts away. Another thing. The trees feared that they would be destroyed if they did not combat evil (I think). However it seemed to me that the evil dudes (I forget if they were called orks or what ever) were only chopping them down to make ladders and battering rams and perhaps a few torches. After the battle did they think they would just keep chopping and burning wood? Where is the motivation for the trees to enter battle?! <Clappy walks outside to continue this conversation with the white birch and red oak in his back yard. He also checks to see if they have brown eyes...> -GreenEyedClappyTheUnemployedActor P.S. The computer generated little dude has some serious issues to work out. Hopefully he gets a little bit of couch time in the next movie. P.P.S. I guess I should seek out a web site that helps explain all of the symbolism and parallels in these books. I was never much good at the stuff.

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