Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Tolkien layers
Re-experiencing The Lord of Rings recently. I ponder it's themes and the many different intertwined story lines in the story. One of my favorite themes that is overlapped or has a variety of layers is the saving figures. There are three, Aragorn, Gandolf, and Frodo. It is really cool to me because Tolkien wrote this recognizing no one figure can save the world except for Jesus. Therefore the story needed three different characters that embodied Jesus in different ways. I know there is already a list of what the three each represent but in my mind, Aragorn is the king, the figure that fought and won the war, comes from the bloodline of a great king of middle-earth and ends up reigning over all of middle-earth. Frodo is the struggling part of Jesus, the part that was tempted and beaten down during the Passion. He endured the ring(sin) and destroyed it, then left the world not long after. Gandolf, was the Jesus in battling death, coming back greater on the otherside of it. Understanding the very finite world he lived in and the ability to reach beyond that. I just love how these characters go together, split up, and take on the different challenges Jesus took on. The fact that there were three figures that still could not sum up Jesus and His saving work and the were tied together in such a beautiful and interesting way by Tolkien in this great story.
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