Frodoism ..
How You Can Be a Hero Too ..
I was lucky enough to get a bootleg copy of Fellowship of the Ring when I was a freshman in college. Nobody had heard of it in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America. I had 12 major people die in my life before I was twenty-nine. (It got so I didn’t want to answer the phone lest it be another ‘dead call.’ The tones in those calls are all the same – the hesitation, the ‘I hate to have to tell you this,’ the furry edges around the voice, the lower register, the sotto voce, the impossible impassable silence after the sentence of death.) Well, Frodo et al got me through a lot of Hell. When I came West in ’74 not knowing if I’d ever get back East to get any of my stuff – and I didn’t – the only thing I took with me was my hardback copy of Fellowship of the Ring.
The reason the Lord of the Rings resonates so molecularly with me is that unlike Jesus in the bible, Frodo is not Divine, has no Big Time Nepotism, no Influential if Querulous Father, has no miracles, has only pluck and in the end, damned doggèdness. He is what the Brits call without reference to physical stature, ‘a stout fellow.’ His heart is sturdy. He presses on, regardless. There is a gallantry. Even when he departs in the End, he doesn’t rise to some Heaven, he goes to a Further Earth. This is all stuff that we could conceivably do. So our inner heroism and endurance is amplified. We are not down looking up
And then there’s Lothlorien & Rivendell. In the gruesome struggle with orcs and other awful agents of Mordor, we come across a Lothlorien or a Rivendell where our charred hearts are mended and we get a crystal vial of elven light to hide in our bosom under the mithril tunic. We find allies who rekindle our magic.
The thing about Frodo is that we can too against horrible odds against odious foes.
The central bible story was done to me. I wasn’t a hero. I was a (preferably reverent) spectator.
I think for these chilling times having an inner story like The Lord of the Rings will bring courage and solace and make us feel in our secretest heart that in whatever unknown part we are a hero even in perilous times, such as ours.
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“Against horrible odds against odious foes” doesn't pretty-up how far and brave we have to be against the Insulated Class which has stolen all the work of the lower classes and then whined on and on about all they (the Swiss-Bank-Accounted) “earned.' The sweat from their brows doesn't fill many teaspoons.
Yeah, esfera, The Odious are really a fine Clean Crowd. Ann Richard's “They were born on third base and thought they hit a triple” sure applies to the sweat factor.
The Bank Account they should really check the Bottom Line on is the Karmic One. Cheez — whose Karmic Account would you rather have? Yours? or theirs? They got some Aegean Latrines to clean up for Eternity. Let's sell cosmic tickets.