[HPFGU-OTChatter] LotR heavy on physical affection?

[Andrew MacIan]

Greetings from Andrew!

A couple of things: one historical, the other mythic
(mythopeic, actually {grin})....

--- Adana Robinson <adanaleigh at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >From: "Aberforth's Goat"
> <Aberforths_Goat at Yahoo.com>
> >
> >I do wish they hadn't made Gandolf run about
> hugging people, though.
> 
> That didn't bother me half as much as Aragorn
> kissing Boromir at the end.  
> Bleeeuck!   I'm a woman, and _I_ wouldn't have
> kissed Boromir.  Although I 
> do understand the whole "nobility" thing; kings do
> go around kissing people. 
>   Rank hath its privileges?

And responsibilities.  Vide 'nobless oblige'.  Also,
recall Nelson dying on his quarter-deck.

> 
{snip}
> Bilbo did run to him when he was frightened, and
> unable to give the ring 
> away but scared to keep it; and this illustrates
> something I found odd about 
> the film but I kind of liked anyway--the way the
> humans treated the 
> hobbits--with respect, but with care and concern as
> well, almost as if they 
> were children to be looked after.  

Erm.  Recall that Gandalf is *not* human.  He is a
member of the Istari, who are roughly equivalent to
demi-gods within the Loreamster's cosmology.

As for Strider/Aragorn....

> They picked the
> hobbits up several times, 
> at one point even carrying them over the snowy
> mountain pass.  They all got 
> used to yelling to Strider for help very quickly,
> although there's a lack of 
> agreement among what they call him.  And when they
> come out of the mountain 
> after Gandalf falls into the pit, it's the humans
> who take charge of getting 
> the "little ones" moving again.

Recall that both Gandalf and Aragorn state that the
Shire has been protected for many years against the
powers of Darkness.  To have the hobbits that are
members of the companions carried (both literally and
figuratively) during the course of the journey is thus
a logical and physical necessity.  After all, the
Ringbearer has always been a hobbit.  Even the Dwarves
carried Bilbo part of the way there and back again.
 
> 
> I wonder if this is supposed to be a natural human
> reaction because of the 
> hobbits' size, or if it is supposed to be an
> indicator of how humans 
> literally and figuratively look down on them?

Erm.  Interesting human-centric notion {grin}.

Cheers,

Drieux


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