Enelya
Rohan warrior
Tangado haid! Leithio i philinn!
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Post by Enelya on Jan 20, 2004 14:22:31 GMT
they are all important but i think mercy adn redmetion, it's one of the main things which is made a big issue of.
Gandalf to frodo about gollom in FOTR, Aragorn to Wormtongue in TTT......
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Pippin
Rohan warrior
Battousai
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Post by Pippin on Feb 15, 2004 19:24:58 GMT
It took me a while to choose, but I voted for friendship. Meh, in my opinion the Fellowship is holding onto their friendship with one another. Once one breaks trust, the Fellowship begins to fall apart into pieces. Like when Boromir wanted the Ring and such. I think it was hard for Frodo to go on his own at the end of FotR, but Sam, being loyal to Frodo, his master and friend, went with him to the same fires of Mordor. Legolas, Gimli, and Aragorn would have separated after the Breaking of the Fellowship if they wouldn't want to find their friends Merry and Pippin. When Pippin freed himself from the orcs, he would have left Merry lying there as if he wouldn't care if they wouldn't have had a friendship and if they wouldn't be kinsmen. I could go on. I think LotR is based on friendship. But there are also other themes, courage, honor, redemption, mercy, sacrifice, and such, but friendship really got me.
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Post by Tishamet on Mar 31, 2004 4:50:22 GMT
none of them really fit exactly what I thought, but Good vs. Evil was so close I decided I would pick that instead of other. I think the prevailing theme was good vs. corruption, which leads to redemption and all the other themes listed. It reflected the world at large, I think, which was one of the reasons I liked it so much. No one is truly evil, but they do some stupid things sometimes. The exception may be Sauron, but I pictured him more as the embodiment of evil than as a person.
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Post by Arwen^elfstone* on Apr 4, 2004 12:47:09 GMT
I voted friendship. It was really hard to vote, but I think that friendship it such a key element, that it ultimately decides the theme. Perhaps not just friendship, but relationships in general. The whole idea of fellowship and togetherness is an important one.
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