Porcupine_I on 13 August 2010
richardhutnik said:
Porcupine_I said:
richardhutnik said:
Soleron said:
richardhutnik said:
The Lord of the Rings storny is sited by some Christians as one that tells a Christian message. You have magic, and Sauron. You have good battling evil. God is remote in it.
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The author's intention was for no allegory. But I suppose you can take it how you want.
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When you play around with symbolism, good and evil, and so on, you end up creating stories that end up having a message behind them. Tolkien's background ended up having a message come through, even if the intention wasn't there.
I also find it interesting with the Matrix Trilogy the creators weren't trying to tell an allegory, just have a story, but they borrowed symbolism and so on, they end up looking like they had a message they were telling.
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you mean just like the people who wrote the bible?
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Depends on what is considered behind the word "inspired". Architypes have powerful meaning in conveying messages, even if the writer may not be aware.
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as a example i will use it in a sentence:
"the People who wrote the Bible were "Inspired" by the Gilgamesh Epos, and various other sources"
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
