I'm going to write about The Lord of the Rings. Lucky for me only one person reads this!
There's that feeling of pure hopelessness, when you're walking out of a theater, and you don't even know how you're supposed to re-enter the world because it seems as though your entire mind has somehow shifted, and nothing in your life matters, because nothing in your life could ever match the greatness of the film you have just seen.
I get that feeling every time I watch these movies, and I've seen them plenty of times. On New Years Eve we watched 1 and 2, and we just finished 3 about ten minutes ago (cryabetes to the max on my part). Ugh, and I have that feeling, that heaviness.
It's just so much to take in. There are so many themes in these films that tug so strongly at my heartstrings - true courage, real humility, fear and fighting the end of the world, using an insignificant amount of good to usurp an ocean of evil.
What makes me saddest is this: I will never be able to see any such thing in my life, anywhere except on a screen. The tiny moments of passion, fear in a face transforming into motivating power, racing to your death because it's the right thing to do.
And so I hang on to the truth that these themes come from something real in this earth, a real good, a real evil, and a real battle that will someday be fought - one I can truly be present for.
My family is watching football, and I need to clean my room, take a shower, do real things. But I wanted (maybe needed) to linger a little longer in the world of fiction. I like to remember things that have power.
Also times that I'm corny/nerdy, 'cause who doesn't love that!
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