{"id":14757,"date":"2009-05-10T17:44:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T23:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=14757"},"modified":"2014-06-13T17:07:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T23:07:05","slug":"fellowship-of-the-ring-minority-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/10\/fellowship-of-the-ring-minority-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Fellowship of the Ring<\/i> – Minor(ity) Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katherine’s archery experience led to a refreshed interest in watching The Lord of the Rings<\/em>. We tried the first movie with her a couple of years back, but she got freaked out by Gollum creeping after them in Moria, and we stopped there.<\/p>\n

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This time (8 about to turn 9), we passed by that with no problem. She seemed to enjoy the movie, and talking about it and the issues it raised (power, despair, temptation, good, evil, betrayal, etc.). She dealt with some of the previously scary parts okay, and the fight sequences in general didn’t cause her a problem (the battle in Balin’s tomb went just fine).<\/p>\n

She had only two moments where she was seriously unhappy — while she called that the Balrog would fall into the pit, Gandalf taking the plunge was seriously distressing for her (along with everyone else of course).<\/p>\n

Second, the pin-cushioning of Boromir (and the capture of Merry and Pippin) brought the movie to a brief halt, for a regaining of composure, assurance that that was the worst of it and the film was almost over.<\/p>\n

She made it through the rest, handled the sadness of the breaking of the Fellowship with aplomb, etc. And while she did not want to watch the next one right away, she was curious about what happened in it. I did offer the general spoiler that we haven’t see the end of Gandalf, and some very general stuff about what the two parties would be running into, and I suspect we’ll be seeing the next installment sooner rather than later<\/p>\n

(Katherine declined comment for this story.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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