Lord of the Rings

Ithilien, Maine

The mills are quiet,
rain-washed monuments;
the river flows clean over the falls,
flowers conquer its banks;
young girls squeal in the foaming pools.

But there are orcish scrawls on the rocks,
and shopping carts rusting in the stream;
on the shore a tree stands dead,
stripped of its bark for nothing.

The men of the land
have not forgotten the blackened hand;

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SDEAN23 writes:

i have heard some mixed reviews on the the lion the witch and the wardrobe. some people tell me its a christian movie, others say it's anti-christian.

That earthquake in northwestern Europe was C. S. Lewis rolling over in his grave, to hear someone refer to his opus as anti-Christian. Though in my experience (and that, inter alia, of theologian Elaine Pagels, see her book The Origin of Satan), it is Christians who are most likely to label other Christians "anti-Christian". So maybe Lewis was just letting out a big sigh.

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