Thursday, August 20, 2009

How I Fell in Love With Frodo Baggins and Friends


I was like in my first year in high school when I discovered and fell in love with this brave men who sacrificed their lives to save the middle-earth. There were hobbits and dwarves, elves and a wizard, and of course men. The fellowship were all appointed to do one thing: to cast and destroy the evil and most powerful Ring to where it was forged - Mt. Doom, the enemy's place itself. It sounds weird, but to those who are inclined or have already watched it, you know from the start, I'm talking about the Award-Winning movie, The Lord of the Rings by Peter Jackson.

I fell in love for the first time I saw The LOTR - The Fellowship of the Ring. It wasn't by accident that my uncle bought a VCD Player with a bonus of a VCD movie that happens to be The LOTR. And it is a fallacy if I will say, I would never knew this movie if my uncle didn't bought such thing. I knew it from the moment I watched The LOTR, I fell in love with the movie and the characters, most of all, Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Legolas, and Aragorn. The first part left me, wondering what will happen next? Will their mission be successful?
From that moment, I started to dream to become a film director and one day I will make a movie as good as that.

The next year, with all of my surprise, I've seen in the television that The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers is coming soon in cinemas. I didn't google much about the movie before but, a second part is really something interesting.

After that, I asked my mama that I want to buy the book. I bought first The Fellowship of the Ring. By the time I started reading it, I didn't like to stop and I wanted to know what goes next. Then I have a dictionary beside me for some very old and deep English terms. After reading the first part, I bought the The Two Towers, then after I finished reading the second part, I decided to buy the third part, but by that time, it was out of stock. I'm still looking forward to buy The Return of the King. I can say JRR Tolkien did a great job. I think (correct me if I'm wrong) ,The LOTR is the 1st long and sequel movie that now every writer wants to do the same, like Harry Potter and Twilight. Peter Jackson has never been wrong to put the trilogy into a movie!

I also started to collect pictures of the The LOTR, VCDs, play games, draw and google some information about it. "I mean how could a 13 year old girl like and love a seemigly-classical, fictional movie? Come on cant you see? It's more of an old." Well for your information , I was 13 when I saw the movie, and I ain't a kid anymore. If you try to analyze it, you'll see the beauty of the movie. Everything is there. Yeah it is a fiction, a fantasy indeed. But it represents true feelings; of what courage means, of valuing friendship; of sacrificing yourself for the good of all; of not giving up; of love and hope; for a better future.

I don't know what wisdom and gift Tolkien has, but his LOTR characters are truly lovely and amazing. I would especially mention Frodo and Sam.

So how did I fall in love with Frodo and friends?
It's because of this gifted, talented, and committed person who created their characters and this passionate and determined man who believes of what he is doing. These people who inspired me to become like them someday. I fell in love with Fodo and friends and of the movie because it is wonderfully created. Perfect! And it's the best of all time.

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