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Susan Linn Interview: the "Philosophical Baby" author decodes your child's brain. Babble.com's Five Minute Time Out.Emily Frost
"The Case for Make Believe" author says today's kids don't know how to play
by Emily Frost
October 16, 2009
Susan Linn is serious about play, which makes sense – she's an award-winning ventriloquist and internationally known puppeteer and one of the late Fred Rogers' collaborators. But Linn also fears for the very survival of play, a concern that stems from her work as Associate Director of the Media Center at Judge Baker Children's Center, and Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She's found that unfortunately, we can no longer take it for granted that children know how to play pretend.
Kids' ability and opportunities to make believe are threatened from all fronts, says Linn, and that includes by their parents. And, lest you underestimated its importance, Linn reminds us that the UN's Convention on the Rights of the Child lists play as a guaranteed right, next to access to nutritious food and clean drinking water.
Babble spoke with Linn about The Case for Make Believe (recently released in paperback), how to best nurture our children's instinctual yearning for creative play, and what she learned in Mister Rogers' neighborhood. (Check out an excerpt here.) – Emily Frost
Why is make believe so fundamental to our children's development, and to their development as good citizens?
It is the foundation of creativity and constructive problem solving. It's how children learn to wrestle with life, to make it meaningful. It is through creative play that children learn cooperation, social coping skills, and negotiation. But also, it's how they learn divergent and critical thinking, and how they feel empowered to take action – those are all especially important in a democratic citizenry.
How are today's parents stifling play without realizing it?
It's not that I'm placing the blame solely on parents – this is a societal issue. And yet, as we need to work to change society, there are also things parents can do within their family.
Kids aren't playing freely outdoors as much anymore, and one of the reasons that parents give for that is stranger danger. Yet the statistics on stranger kidnappings haven't changed in the past twenty-five years. But parents perceive that the world as a dangerous place. And certainly there are neighborhoods where it is dangerous for kids to be out alone. But, there are lots of neighborhoods where that's not the case.
Another way is the push to structure children's time so that there always have to be organized things for children to do, instead of just letting children create their own amusement.
But one of the biggest problems is the commercialization of children's lives and this push by the media, and toy and marketing industries, to convince parents and children that children need the things that corporations sell in order to play, in order to be creative, and that whatever children can make up by themselves isn't good enough.
"The Case for Make Believe" author says today's kids don't know how to play
by Emily Frost
October 16, 2009
You're not a fan of certain very popular computerized toys. Why is that?
A good toy, a toy that nurtures creative play is ninety percent child and only ten percent toy. Play is useful for children, and engaging and exciting for children, when they drive the play, when they're in charge of what's going to happen in the play. What's happening with toys like Tickle Me Elmo is that they interfere with that process. Elmo is a media character, linked to a media program that children are very familiar with. Children play less creatively with media-linked toys because who the character is, and what the character says and does are already embedded in the toy. If they see the media program a lot, the script gets embedded in the child's brain and then kids are just imitating with media linked toys, they're not engaged in creativity.
But the other concern about toys like Tickle Me Elmo is that they're embedded with computer chips, so the toys sing and dance and talk and do back flips, but all the child is doing is pressing a button to make that happen, and that's not a creative experience for children, and really, the toys are having more fun than the kids. And parents are convinced that children need this kind of toy because it is modern and technological. But really, those toys are pretty useless in terms of promoting the kind of creative play that is fundamental to children's well-being.
Would you say there's a class difference in access to non-branded, low-tech toys? And if so, what can we do to address the disparity?
Well, one of the problems is that it is hard to find unbranded toys for young children. It's possible, but you find them at high-end, specialty toy stores. If you go to Wal-Mart or Toys 'R' Us or Target or the place where working-class people shop, then what you find are endless rows of media branded products and plastic, commercial, chip-embedded toys.
One thing we could do about that is make sure that child care centers, preschools, and schools provide an alternative to commercial culture, so that children have the experience of time spent away from the kinds of products whose advertising they're constantly bombarded with. But some schools and childcare centers use TV or computers to calm children down. There's also pressure from parents who feel that kids need to gain technological skills, practically from birth. But that doesn't really make any sense. Postponing that a few years is not going to hurt a child's ability to engage with technology.
I'm not one of these "pull the plug and move to the woods" people. As much as you fault the media and our obsession with screen time, you're not anti-TV at all. In fact, you worked closely with the late Fred Rogers and television was very important to your childhood.
I'm not one of these "pull the plug and move to the woods" people. In fact, television had a very positive and profound impact on my creative life as a child. And, I really struggled with that when I wrote The Case for Make Believe. I kept saying to myself, "Why am I so critical about today's media culture when in fact, I benefited from television and movies, from screen media? What's the difference?" And the difference is access. I saw Peter Pan at the movies once when I was six. I didn't see it again until I was nineteen. I was so delighted by it, but if I wanted to enter that world, the only way I could do it was to play about it. But today, children can see movies or television programs over and over and over again – and so they don't have to play creatively in order to enter that world. They can just press a button and there it is. They don't get a chance to exercise their creative muscle.
What's your favorite memory of Fred Rogers and his neighborhood?
I did a bit for his show where I did a whole spontaneous interaction with my puppets and when I finished he said, "That was wonderful Susan. And do you know why? Because you let you come out." He was who he was. It wasn't an act.
Another one – a memory that means so much to me, was actually the last time I ever saw him. He was speaking at Wheelock College and I went to hear him and went back to say "hi." It was at a time when my daughter was quite ill and he took my hand and said "Susan, how are you? How's your daughter?" and I stood in the middle of that room, filled with people who wanted to talk with him, and told him about my daughter. And he stood there listening intently as though there was nobody else in the room. Then a few days later I got a little book in the mail from him, his book, You are Special and he had written "I just thought you might need this." That means a lot to me and the opportunity to be mentored by him is something I will just carry with me forever.
"The Case for Make Believe" author says today's kids don't know how to play
by Emily Frost
October 16, 2009
When children are playing in a way that involves enacting violent scenes, often our first instinct is to immediately stop them or redirect them. But you'd disagree with that course of action – why is that?
Yes. I think that playing about violence and playing about scary things is a way for children to cope with their fears, their anger, and things that they may experience in their lives. And children have always played about violence; they've played wars or they've played about scary monsters or cops and robbers, for instance. That kind of play can be exciting and fun and it is a way for children to gain mastery over what can be a very scary world, even in the most protected child's life.
But there's a difference between play that is merely a capitulation of what kids see on the screen and play that is really working something through. Preschool teachers report that the play of children immersed in Spider Man, for instance, and all things Spider Man, is merely repetitive violence. And if kids are immersed in the film and immersed in the toys, we need to let them play about it, because that's how they work things out.
The challenge is: is there a way to move the play beyond the script so that it can have some more meaning and creativity for the children? Can you use clay to build a cave for Spider Man? Can you make Spider Man lunch? Can you build Spider Man's house with blocks? Anything adults can do to shift the play a little bit is helpful. I have spent time finding myself arguing (I'm using the word argument lightly here) with kids because I want to deviate from a television program or set script and the kids don't want to. The scripts are very, very powerful. And with boys it is violence and with girls it is this kind of sexualized, gender stereotyped play. And I have seen that a lot.
What can parents do, and what can we do as a society, to protect play?
This is the first generation of parents that really have to consciously and actively carve out commercial free time, space and silence for their children to play creatively. If they just let things go along, it's not going to happen, because for the first time in history, when children have leisure time, we can't assume that they're engaged in creative play; they're either engaged with screens or they're engaged in this rote sort of scripted play. Parents really have to make active decisions to nurture creative play and they can do that in a variety of ways.
Nature is a great antidote to commercialism and children play more creatively in green spaces. One way is to limit screen time. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no screen time for children under the age of two, and only an hour or two a day for older children. So, that's one thing that parents really do have to do.
Another thing is to be thoughtful about the kinds of toys and equipment that you give your children. Think about purchasing toys that can do more than one thing, toys that lay there until a child invests them with life, toys that are tools for creating things, from simple musical instruments to art supplies; those are the toys that will really nurture creative play and give your children hours of pleasure.
And get your children outside. Nature is a great antidote to commercialism and children play more creatively in green spaces.
And what some families are doing is having screen-free nights where there are no cell phones, computers, television, or mp3 players and families do things together. The first one might be hard but what families are reporting is that it is really fun. It's nice for families to be able to interact together. Family meals are important for all sorts of reasons but family meals are where you sit around and talk, where family history gets passed on.
So all of these things that a couple generations ago, or even a generation ago, we used to just take all of this for granted, but we can't anymore. It's bizarre, but we've reached a point where nurturing creative play is actually counter-cultural. Creative play is actually a threat to corporate profits. Children who play creatively don't need as many of the things corporations sell to us, they're not as dependent on them.
Susan Linn also works with The Campaign for A Commercial Free Childhood, where you can find more resources on nurturing creative play.


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XBanner: Making XDM More Attractive
XBanner was invented and designed from the beginning to serve one purpose—to beautify the login screen XDM usually generates. This beautification is accomplished by drawing a piece of text in a very large font, then rendering some graphic effect on the text and/or the screen background.
Figure 1. Standard XDM Login Screen
Figure 1 shows a plain login screen as displayed by XDM "straight out of the box". Linux, which uses plain XDM, has a similar if not identical login screen. Commercial companies, like HP and DEC, supply custom XDMs that generate a nice login screen with the company logo, a background, etc. Figure 2 shows how my home system greets me when I turn it on. Using XBanner, any system can look as special as mine with minimal work on your part.
The text graphic rendering effects available in XBanner include many interesting things. In this article, I describe a few:
StandOut: This effect, combined with a proper selection of colors, gives the text a look resembling that of Motif or MS Windows buttons. Motif adds a few pixels on the left and top of the button in a lighter color than the button and a darker shade to the right and bottom of the button to create a 3D effect. StandOut uses a similar technique on the entire text. Each letter and symbol appears to be three-dimensional like the Motif buttons. The thickness of the letters can be selected.
Backlight: This effect draws 1-pixel thick lines around the text, giving it many outlines. If you choose a dark foreground for the text, then have XBanner generate a color gradient for the outlines going from a bright color near the letters to the same color as the background of the screen, the text looks as if it is being illuminated from behind.
FatText: With the proper selection of parameters this effect makes your text look fat rather than flat. Some color combinations can actually make the text look as if it has round edges rather than sharp. Also, the FatText color gradient can be instructed to use more than two colors to get other interesting results.
FgPlasma: XBanner draws a field of Plasma Clouds, cuts from it a template in the shape of selected text and places it on the screen. In Figure 2, the title "Good Guys Free!" is an example of the FgPlasma rendering effect.
FgGrad: This draws a color gradient on the text itself. Instead of a plain vertical bar with serifs, the letter "I" would be striped in different colors.
Drawing the text is only the first of the two prime jobs XBanner was designed to do; it can also render a nice background. Apart from the simple fill-style background, XBanner can generate color gradients on the background using many different patterns. Here are some examples:
Fan: This effect draws a nice fan, centered at the middle of the bottom line of the screen. The selected color gradient determines the colors of the fan. See the background of Figure 2 for a sample of the fan effect.
TopDown / LeftRight: These create a color gradient going from one side of the screen to the other.
BgPix: XBanner has the ability to tile the whole screen with a pixmap (.XPM file) before it draws the selected text.
Plasma: PlasmaClouds fill the entire screen. Selecting such colors as White and DeepSkyBlue produces a wonderful sky-like image with genuine-looking white clouds.
Ripples: This background style has the appearance of ripples in a pond. This background style, a result of color-cycling (explained below), produces beautiful effects.
Almost any object involving a color-gradient in XBanner can be color-cycled, generating a sense of motion. If you cycle the colors of a Fan background style, the entire fan appears to rotate in one direction. The color gradient of the FgGrad effect can also be cycled, giving a sense of motion to the text. Cycling the PlasmaCloud effects is also a nice idea. You can cycle the background Plasma, the foreground Plasma, or even both! I use color-cycling for my home system login screen, shown in Figure 2. Unfortunately, color-cycling is not available for hard-copy.
The Ripples background style was specifically designed for color-cycling. The ripples' wave-fronts move at different speeds, producing a more realistic look.
Another neat feature of XBanner is the ability to draw a star on the corners of the text, creating a "glinting" effect that appears at random locations at random intervals. You can also place a pixmap or set of pixmaps on the screen, underline any text or effect, and select many other options.
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thats so cool !
would you make me one ?
would you make me one ?
Thank you! Actually, I am beginning to make a website that people can go to if they want their picture on a magazine cover like this. However, it will cost money to do so. I can message you, if you'd like, when I get it up. Sorry for any inconvenience.
ah, very convincing tho :]
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Skip to comments.EWTN - 4/6/11 - Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" A Catholic Worldview
Posted on 04/06/2011 3:04:55 PM PDT by NYer
Wed. April 6 at 10 PM ET, Fri. April 8 at 1 PM ET, Sat. April 9 at 5 AM ET
Joseph Pearce uncovers the Catholicism found in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
From Education Resource Center
How did such a strange story, full of imaginary creatures such as hobbits, elves, ents and orcs, emerge as a powerful literary force? How did its author, a quiet and unassuming professor of philology at Merton College, Oxford, become the creator of a mythological world that continues to fascinate and captivate new generations of readers a half-century after its introduction?
These questions are intriguing enough, but even more surprising, perhaps, is the fact that Tolkien was a devout Catholic who often went out of his way to point out that his Christianity was the most important ingredient in The Lord of the Rings.
Who exactly was J.R.R. Tolkien?
Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in 1892, of English parents, and christened John Ronald Reuel in the local Anglican cathedral. Shortly after his third birthday, his mother returned to England, taking John Ronald Reuel and his younger brother, Hillary, with her. His father, unable to vacate his post as manager of a local bank, was forced temporarily to remain behind. He died suddenly, after suffering a severe hemorrhage, before he could join his wife and children in England.
Her husband's death left Mabel Tolkien in relative poverty, reliant upon her family for financial assistance. In 1900, when J.R.R. was 8, she was received into the Catholic Church a decision which outraged her family and resulted in the withdrawal of the financial support.
So it was that the young Tolkien became a child convert. Thereafter, he always remained a resolute Catholic, a fact which profoundly affected the direction of his life. The realization that the Catholic faith might not have been the faith of his father, but was the faith of his father's fathers, ignited and nurtured his love for medievalism. This, in turn, led to his disdain for the humanistic "progress" that followed in the wake of the Reformation.
Martyr Mother
Mabel Tolkien was diagnosed as diabetic and, in November 1904, she sank into a coma and died. Tolkien was 12. For the rest of his life, Tolkien would remain convinced that his mother's untimely death was the result of the persecution that had followed her conversion. Sixty years later, he compared her sacrifices for the faith with the lukewarm complacency of some of his children toward the faith they had inherited from her.
"When I think of my mother's death," he wrote, "worn out with persecution, poverty, and, largely consequent, disease, in the effort to hand on to us small boys the Faith, and remember the tiny bedroom she shared with us in rented rooms in a postman's cottage at Rednal, where she died alone, too ill for viaticum, I find it very hard and bitter, that my children stray away."
Indeed, Tolkien always considered his mother a martyr for the faith. Nine years after her death, he wrote: "My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it was not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to His great gifts as He did to Hillary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the Faith."
Tolkien and his brother were now orphans. Father Francis Morgan, a priest at the Oratory in Birmingham (founded by Cardinal John Henry Newman), became their legal guardian. Each morning, Tolkien and his brother would serve Mass for Father Francis before going to school. Tolkien remained grateful to the priest all his life, describing him as "a guardian who has been a father to me, more than most real fathers."
So much for Tolkien's Catholic faith. But what of the myth he created? Is The Lord of the Rings as Catholic as its author? Tolkien certainly believed so. "The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work," he wrote to his friend, Father Robert Murray, "unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision."
In another letter, written shortly after The Lord of the Rings was published, Tolkien outlined a "scale of significance" of those factors in his life that had influenced his writing of the book. He divided these into three distinct categories, namely the "insignificant," the "more significant" and the "really significant."
It was into this latter category that he placed his Christian faith. "And there are a few basic facts, which, however dryly expressed, are really significant," he wrote. "For instance I was born in 1892 and lived for my early years in 'the Shire' in a pre-mechanical age. Or more important, I am a Christian (which can be deduced from my stories), and in fact a Roman Catholic."
In what ways is Tolkien's mythological epic imbued with the faith of its author?
First, as is clear from Tolkien's account of the creation of Middle Earth in The Silmarillion, his imaginary world is under the omnipotent guidance of the same God he worshipped each Sunday at holy Mass. In fact, Tolkien's creation myth parallels the creation narrative in Genesis. The world is loved into existence by the One, who invites the Ainur, the archangels, to cooperate in the creative process, much as the musicians in an orchestra cooperate with the conductor. One of these archangels, Melkor, refuses to play in harmony with the others and is intent on "playing his own tune" in defiance of the will of the one God.
Taking his inspiration, no doubt, from the Book of Isaiah, Tolkien says of Melkor:
"From splendour he fell through arrogance to contempt for all things save himself, a spirit wasteful and pitiless. Understanding he turned to subtlety in perverting to his own will all that he would use, until he became a liar without shame. He began with the desire of Light, but when he could not possess it for himself alone, he descended through fire and wrath into a great burning, down into Darkness. And darkness he used most upon Arda [earth], and filled it with fear for all living things."
Shortly after this description of Melkor, Tolkien introduces Sauron, the Dark Enemy in The Lord of the Rings. Sauron he describes as a spirit and the greatest of Melkor's servants.
No Fear of the Dark
If the evil in The Lord of the Rings is specifically satanic, the actions of the virtuous characters are so rooted in sanctity that they almost appear to be metaphors for the truth of the Gospel. In the unassuming humility of the hobbits, we see the exaltation of the humble. In their reluctant heroism, we see a courage ennobled by modesty. In the immortality of the elves, and the sadness and melancholic wisdom it evokes in them, we can read their dissatisfaction with the incompleteness of the fallen world. Man's sojourn in the "vale of tears" of the natural realm is likewise marked by a desire for something more the mystical union with the divine beyond the reach of time.
In Gandalf we see the archetypal prefiguration of a powerful prophet or patriarch, a seer who beholds a vision of the Kingdom beyond the understanding of men. At times he is almost Christlike. He lays down his life for his friends and his mysterious "resurrection" results in his transfiguration. Before his self-sacrificial "death," he is Gandalf the Grey; after his "resurrection" he reappears as Gandalf the White, armed with greater powers and deeper wisdom.
In the true, though exiled, kingship of Aragorn we see glimmers of the hope for a restoration of truly ordained, i.e., Catholic, authority. The person of Aragorn represents the embodiment of the Arthurian and Jacobite yearning the visionary desire for the "return of the king" after eons of exile. The "sword that is broken," the symbol of Aragorn's kingship, is reforged at the anointed time a potent reminder of Excalibur's union with the Christendom it is ordained to serve.
Significantly, the role of men in The Lord of the Rings reflects their divine, though fallen, nature. They are to be found among the enemy's servants, though usually beguiled by deception into the ways of evil and always capable of repentance and, in consequence, redemption. Boromir, who represents man in the Fellowship of the Ring, succumbs to the temptation to use the ring, i.e., the forces of evil, in the naive belief that it could be wielded as a powerful weapon against Sauron. He finally recognizes the error of seeking to use evil against evil. He dies heroically, laying down his life for his friends in a spirit of repentance.
Ultimately, The Lord of the Rings is a sublimely mystical passion play. The carrying of the ring the emblem of sin is the carrying of the cross. The mythological quest is a veritable Via Dolorosa. In short, The Lord of the Rings is every bit as Catholic as its author. It is not only written by a Catholic, it is so Catholic that only a Catholic could have written it.
Enjoy the program.
My youngest brother (the movie buff) loved the whole series. I have watched bits and pieces of them all, but haven't ever been able to sit thru any of the series.
Who the Golem suppose to be I want to know LOL!
While Tolkein is sublime, Joseph Pearce is himself quite interesting. For those unfamiliar with it, his conversion story may be found here:
Race with the Devil: From the Hell of Hate to the Well of Mercy
I don't like the movies all that much. Why couldn't they stick to the text?
I have a book Joseph Pierce wrote about Tolkien, that I got at the homeschool store clearance sale. It was very interesting. He's an engaging writer, although a discerning reader sometimes has to say, "And how do you know that?!?"
Forget the movies. Watch a travel show about New Zealand, and then read the books (or the other way around). Tolkien's sentences are absolutely exquisite; it's like being in the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception.
They didn't stick to the story so as to avoid some gals from frowning in displeasure at the lack of "strong female characters", as far as I can tell. I think the movies were as good as could be expected, considering they cut Glorfindal and other parts. The worst is the added stuff, I think.
And yes, Tolkien could put together a sentence. I think Jack Vance has him beat, though.
I agree. I understand cuts have to be made, unless the show's going to run 14 hours like the Russian version of "War and Peace," but taking out the author's content and adding someone else's in is just evil.
I had the feeling the director had a crush on the Arwen actress - her part was WAY too big! Plus, he and his writing partner admitted that they didn't want Aragorn to be too noble and brave. More modern to have weaker man and woman in control. Not at ALL like the book!
Yes, that's the problem ... "more modern." The only parts I really liked were the scenery, and Elrond looking like Sam Neill in a bad mood. I really like Sam Neill.
LOL! I loved the scenery too....and Sean Bean!
Yes, Sean Bean is quite scenic. He was wonderful as "Lieutenant Sharpe" in the BBC/PBS series.
I didn't care for the movies much. I noticed that all evil beings were initially good. As I know little about Catholicism can someone tell me - Just who was Tom Bombadil?
A totally fictional character, invented by J.R.R. Tolkien. There is no one-to-one matchup of LOTR characters or events with Catholicism.
One can see in the figure of Tom Bombadil echoes of Christian souls such as St. Francis of Assisi, whose experience of God had a directness and simplicity outside societal norms and intellectual structures. See G.K. Chesterton's biography.
On the other hand, Tolkien had many other historic and literary influences other than the Catholic Faith. Someone with more knowledge of the subject than I might find a source for the character within the English and Scandinavian historical and mythological traditions in which Tolkien specialized.
He represents our attachment to sin .... those attachments that are too "precious" to give up.
The program was excellent ... did you watch it?
The documentary was about the Catholic symbolism in the book. It had nothing to do with the movie. If you missed it last night, you can watch the replay tomorrow, Friday, at 1 pm. In the introduction, Pearce described a conversation between Tolkien and CS Lewis who was a self-proclaimed atheist. That conversation so impacted Lewis that within a few weeks, he was calling himself a christian. The result, as we now know. were the Chronicles of Narnia.
I always saw more parallels to Norse mythology, myself. Pretty much all the characters relate back to some Scandinavian myth or other. The only possibly Christian idea I ever saw was the idea of dying for something greater than yourself, but even that isn't specifically Catholic at all.
A truly great book, even if you're not Catholic. I try to read the whole thing once a year. I never tire of the great heroism, loyalty, and sacrifice of the characters.
And I always laugh out loud when Gandalf says stay to the right path because the left path smells funny!
No wonder Catholics don't like the Bible.
OH YEAH NYER I watch it live it was goodddd
I didn't realize how much Cathoic faith really inspirated Lord of the rings book authors
SO that deal with Golem LOL!
OH YEAH NYER I watch it live it was goodddd
I didn't realize how much Cathoic faith really inspirated Lord of the rings book authors
SO that deal with Golem LOL!
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You missed details such as the Ring's being destroyed on the date of the Annunciation, and some lines that are almost word-for-word from the Bible. However, you're right that all great striving and sacrifice is universal, not necessarily specifically Christian.
Wonderful, I will set the DVR!
I'd imagine Gollum represents those who don't willingly serve Satan, but end up furthering his goals anyway. Almost like a pagan; his plans for the ring don't involve anything more than simply keeping it, along with his ways, resisting any attempts to change. Sort of an Aztec who wouldn't convert to Christianity; human sacrifice was just what they did, and to them not part of some diabolical plot.
I'd imagine with Aragorn (and Denethor) that they couldn't see how to explain the difference between those men (who could live to be 300) and regular men, at least to non-readers who might watch the movie anyway. Given the time constraints, I think they did a good job. As for the female characters, Tolkien DID have Eowyn kill the Witch-King of Angmar (a good twist on the prophecy he felt protected him), and in the end both of the women ended up as wives instead of self-made successful businesswomen. Arwen in fact gave up a lot to be with a man, and Aragorn was hardly portrayed as weak & modern; in fact, the Rohirrim acknowledge him as a leader while their own king still lives. Most importantly, like Faramir, he can resist the power of the ring, which even Galadriel finds difficult; his willingness to battle against hopeless odds in very "un-modern", and the violence he could inflict was very Mad Max-like. The litmus test was whether they showed the southerners as dark savages, which they did (riding oliphants and all). There were none of the now-required tokens in the movies, except maybe Legolas as the token poofter.
Tom could also be seen as a kind of pure hermit; he doesn't generally involve himself with the affairs of others, and maybe because of that the ring has no effect on him.
Gandalf's sacrifice and "resurrection" separate it from other mythologies. The influence of the Norse can't be disregarded; "Isengard" isn't far off from "Asgard".
I thought that was a bit strange, since what motivated Tolkien was the fact that England itself didn't have as many myths & legends as other cultures had. While acknowledging the Arthurian legends, he seemed to feel they were somewhat lessened by the fact that they are set in Christian England (and thus more recent).
I understand Gollum's attachment to the ring, but his lunacy seems to make him more deranged than deliberately evil. He certainly doesn't have the same purpose for the ring that Sauron does.
Good point, a Saint Anthony the Abbot, of sorts, or the Celtic equivalent. One can't see St. Anthony giggling over nonsense rhymes. That's what brought to mind Chesterton's biography of St. Francis, because he placed St. Francis in a new heremitical class, with some important distinctions from the earlier penitential hermitage of the Desert Fathers.
Tolkien can be a little hard to place, culturally, for an American. We don't have the natural sense of where he fits among British types.
True, and it can't be assumed that every part in his books has a Christian equivalent. Certainly unique, though. I've only read the trilogy and The Silmarillion (without which the trilogy makes much less sense); I definitely have to look at some of his other writings. I know his son put out unfinished works as well.
With Gollum, think of an alcoholic's attachment to addiction. Sauron, on the other hand, works for Satan.
If you can, try to catch the replay of this program today at 1pm on EWTN. He explains many of the characters including Gollum and Sorum.
I watched the replay of the program this afternoon and tried to take took notes. Pearce delves deep into the symbolism, especially the hidden key to understanding the story. Pearce begins by reminding us that Tolkien was a linguist and employs this skill artfully in naming the characters.
Morgoth Bauglir (originally Melkor) means "he who arises in might". Melkor was the most powerful of the Ainur, but turning to darkness, became Morgoth, the ultimate antagonist of Arda, from whom all evil in the world of Middle-earth ultimately stems. This character is drawn from Isaiah 14:11 -" All your pomp has been brought down to the grave, along with the noise of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you and worms cover you". Morgorth = enemy = Satan; IOW, Morgorth is Satan.
Manwe was the King of the Valar, husband of Varda Elentári, brother of the Dark Lord Melkor, and King of Arda. Manwë was (with his brother Melkor i.e. Morgoth) the greatest of the Ainur, and the one that best understood the will of Eru. Manwe is Michael the Archangel.
Sauron - the greatest of Satan's servants, and Saruman - illustrates the corruption of power. Both names are derived from the Greek "sauros" which means lizard or dragon. In mythology, dragons symbolize Satan.
Wormtongue means devil tongue. Gandalf calls him a snake and wormgongue replies by baring his teeth and hissing.
Pearce now reveals the hidden key of the story - it is the day on which the ring is "unmade" or destroyed. That day is March 25. The significance of this date will not escape the attention of Catholic scholars, though it is certainly overlooked all too often by Tolkien's non-Christian admirers. March 25 is the Feast of the Annunciation. It is the day on which Jesus was conceived. It is the day on which the Word was made flesh. It is the day on which God became man. It is also the day on which the Crucifixion supposedly took place. Today, Good Friday, follows a movable calendar but March 25 was fixed by Anglo Saxons as the actual date of the Crucifixion.
It signified the way in which God had "unmade" the Fall, which, like the Ring, had brought humanity under the sway of "the Shadow." If the ring that the hero wants "unmade" at the culmination of Tolkien's quest is the "one ring to rule them all and in the darkness bind them," the Fall was the "one sin to rule them all and in the darkness bind them." On March 25, the one sin, like the one ring, had been "unmade," destroying the power of the Dark Lord.
Pearce now makes the comparison between the power of the ring and original sin. As you recall, once it was slipped onto a finger, the wearer disappeared in God's world but became more visible in the dark world of Sauron. The wearer struggled against the 2 powers of good and evil, always free to choose. With sin, we are excommunicated from God's world and free to choose evil. In choosing to sin, we form habits. A thing possessed possesses the possessor as in Matt 6:21 - "where your treasure is, there your heart will be".
As christians, we must follow in the footsteps of Christ. Frodo does the same thing. On the way to the crucifixion, Christ carried the cross which is a symbol for sin. Frodo carries the ring which also symbolizes sin. Notice that on their journey, they bring nothing to eat except "lembas". In elfish, "lembas" means life bread, IOW, the Blessed Sacrament.
Pearce poses the question of why Frodo fails at the end of the journey. The most difficult part is behind him; all he has to do is toss the ring into the fire but he can't bring himself to do it. This bothered Pearce for a long time until he recognized the answer and calls it a master stroke of Tolkien genius. Like Frodo, we cannot carry our crosses on our own. We need the grace of Christ to do that. Gollum became the agent of that grace. At the beginning of the book, it is mentioned that good can come from evil. Now, at the end, we see that. All along the way, each of the hobbits had an opportunity to kill gollum but spared his life. Had they killed him, the quest would have failed. Tolkien used Gollum to demonstrate Christ's command to "love your enemy". Had they killed Gollum, sin would have triumphed.
At the conclusion of the program, Pearce mentions several of the many themes running throughout the trilogy that hopefully will be covered in the future. These include Gandalf and the symbolism to the death, resurrection and ascension of our Lord. I hope this addresses some of your comments and hopefully, the program will be shown again.
I saw the first half of it the other night, but had to get to bed. I worked this afternoon, so I missed the end.
Great books!
Thanks; I was up late enough to catch the Morgoth bit.
I hope to catch the last 1/2 hour at some point.
Anyway, in one of the letters, Tolkien plainly tells his son "Gandalf was an angel."
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Happy New Year Happy New You
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Today is Choose-Day – make the most of it
Choice is a Wonderful Thing
I have been in situations in my life where instead of being grateful I was dissatisfied and so bit by bit life did indeed get worse I played the victim for so many years believing the stories I told myself poor me poor me
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Thoughts turn into emotions and we become what we think about
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when you're not earning enough money so you're getting into credit card debt
But here's the amazing thing you keep doing these processes, every day tapping affirming and a week or so in you get an email from someone or a call, or you bump into someone and they tell you about an opportunity and you find out about that opportunity and you keep doing your daily tapping and your mantras and whatever you've been doing all the while going about your usual daily stuff and maybe a month down the line you find that your life really has improved on some levels so you get excited and do your affirmations and tapping and daily processes with greater zeal and then more good stuff happens and you really do believe now in the magic of the law of attraction and so you're life gets better and better
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Isn't Monday like mini New Year's day?
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I do
It really does depend what you mean by the word though doesn't it?
Hocus pocus .. spells … actually I do believe in those but that's not what I mean here now
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Willets Point business owners scrambled to relocate as another deadline approached this week.
Jan. 31 marked the last day businesses situated in Phase 1 of the redevelopment could find another home and still receive a payment from the city worth six months' rent. If business owners left before Nov. 30, they were offered a payment worth 12 months' rent.
Dozens of auto shops that have populated the blighted area for decades are being moved out to make space for the first phase of a $3 billion redevelopment that will transform Willets Point into residential, retail and commercial space.
The Sunrise Co-op, a group of more than 40 business owners hoping to relocate together, have closed in on a 140,000-square-foot warehouse in the Bronx, but had not signed a lease as of Wednesday. The co-op hoped to sign the lease on the property Friday, said one of the group's organizers, Marco Neira.
"We've got to do it then," Neira said. "Then we can negotiate with the city to get more time until we fix up the place."
The Sunrise Co-op hopes it will be able to negotiate funding from the city for the work that needs to be done on the new space, Neira said.
Business owners who relocate after the deadline will not get the supplemental payment, but will still be eligible for funding from the city to relocate individually as well as in groups.
The city Economic Development Corp. said more than 50 businesses have relocated from the Phase 1 area to a new location or are close to doing so.
"A significant portion of businesses in Willets Point have relocated or are preparing to do so, many with financial and other support from the city," said Kate Blumm, a spokeswoman for the EDC. "This brings us closer to having a clear path to begin to remediate a century of toxic contamination as a first step towards creating a new neighborhood with commercial, community and housing opportunities for Queens."
Some business owners in Phase 1 have not found new locations yet, but plan to move on anyway.
Bijy Kumar has owned his auto shop that sells wheels and rims for more than 11 years. He had not found anywhere to put his business, but planned to move on in February.
"I have no plans, but I have to keep looking. I have no place right now," he said.
Martha Gualotuna, emigrated from Ecuador in 1995. She has owned Emmanuel Body Shop in Willets Point for more than 10 years. She has not found a new location either, but plans to move anyway, lured by the payment the city has offered.
"My brothers are going to pick up her stuff to put it in storage," her daughter Tana said.
Arturo Olaya, a Willets Point tenant business leader, has vowed to keep fighting against the city, hoping to strike a better deal for business owners. He said the plan to relocate to a new location in the Bronx was not good enough.
"It's unbelievable. The people don't want to move over there. It's so far away," he said. "Customers are not going to go looking for anybody out there. They'll have competition with junkers in Hunts Point. How are they going to survive out there?"
There is no set timetable for when the city will break ground on Phase 1, Blumm said, as the site's developer first has to wait for all of the businesses in the area to move out.
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Outreach Teams are student led volunteer teams serving in communities surrounding Gordon College, including Boston and the entire North Shore area. To inquire about any of these Outreach Teams or to start a new one, please contact the team leaders directly or Hannah Schundler in the Chapel Office, Room 310.
Homeless Ministry
Homeless Ministry is focused on building relationships with the homeless population in Revere. Each Saturday, the team meets in Gillies at 9 am for breakfast and a devotional before driving into Revere. The team supports the work and homeless ministry of First Congregational Church in Revere. Each week, the team helps with meal preparations before ministering on the beach in Revere. This team focuses on the importance of sharing Christ's hope and love through a consistent presence.
Contact Christeena Joel and Kirstin Burgess for more information.
Farm Outreach Team
The Farm Outreach Team demonstrates care for God's creation through support of farms in the area. This team serves at multiple farms, including vegetable and dairy farms, depending on the season. The team has also had the opportunity to grow in their understanding of the environment, agriculture, and farming methods. This is a great opportunity to serve God's creation and come alongside local farmers in their work. This team serves throughout the week on different days, depending on the needs of the farm.
Contact Damaris Gibaldi for more information.
REACH Drama Ministry
REACH Drama Ministry is a scripted-improv outreach group that creates and performs skits based on various issues and situations that teens and pre-teens face. As one of the oldest outreach ministries at Gordon College, REACH strives to show youth healthy and safe ways to deal with these topics by performing selected skits at various youth organizations across the North Shore and beyond.
"REACH has been an incredibly effective way to reach teens right where they live. As these students minister it is so clear that they really 'get' their audience." -Kevin Fortier, Faith Bridge Church leader
For more information, contact Abby Scott and Jean Lapitan
The mission of the Holland Project, located on a beautiful farm in Merrimac, is "to bring the healing benefits of animals and nature to individuals with disabilities through creative programs." This unique program stewards the resources of their 12 acre farm and property to serve various groups throughout the week. The Holland Project facilitates Saturday farm sessions for teenagers with autism or other developmental delays. Teenagers are paired with a volunteer buddy who spends the morning exploring the farm, walking the nature trails, engaging with animals, and working on the farm. The Holland Project also has other programs and projects on site, and has other volunteer opportunities such as grant-writing and helping maintain the farm. Students with an interest in working with individuals with disabilities in a creative, outdoor setting should consider serving at the Holland Project.
For more information about getting involved with this team in Spring 2016, contact Hannah Mathews. This team will serve at Saturday sessions throughout March and April.
This outreach team serves at Cape Ann Animal Aid in Gloucester, which is a non-profit, no kill organization committed to animal adoption. The goals of this team are to care for God's creation by interacting with, playing with, and caring for dogs and cats, to reach out to the community surrounding Gordon College and develop meaningful relationships with community organizations, and to form friendships between students of different years and backgrounds. This team serves on Monday and Thursday afternoons.
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Kids Club
Kids Club is an after school tutoring and mentoring program at Washington St. Baptist Church in downtown Lynn for children between the ages of 6 and 12. Each week, Gordon students serve by tutoring the kids in reading and math and building relationships. This outreach team serves on Thursday afternoons.
For more information, contact Melissa Newell.
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The Outreach's mission is to develop meaningful relationships with young people between the ages of 12-19 in Amesbury, MA. This team serves on Monday evenings and Friday afternoons.
For more information, contact Candace Botterbusch and Ashley Bongiovanni.
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The Lowell Mission Church team ministers to youth at this Cambodian Church located in Lowell, MA. Students help facilitate youth group, help with events, and develop relationships with youth. This team serves Friday nights.
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Every other Thursday afternoon, the Beverly Senior Center hosts intergenerational game nights. This is a great way to build relationships with seniors in our community and also have fun! If you are interested in getting involved in game nights, contact Cassie Moore.
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Wellspring is looking for tutors to serve elementary and middle school children who live in an extended stay motel on the North Shore. This motel serves as a shelter for families from both the US and abroad. Gordon students are currently serving Mondays and Thursdays as tutors. Volunteers are still needed on Tuesdays from 4-5 pm and Wednesdays from 5-6:30. Contact Hannah Schundler for more information.
There are lots of opportunities to serve in the Greater Boston/North Shore Community! If you are interested in serving with a friend, with a small group (your team, floor, club, etc.), or as an outreach team leader, please contact Hannah Schundler in the Chapel Office.
Amirah is a faith-based organization on the North Shore that provides safe houses to women coming out of sexual exploitation. Their safe house just opened, and they are looking for volunteers to serve in a variety of ways! You can read more about Amirah, and their volunteer opportunities, on their website. Students desiring to serve in the safe house must attend a training session facilitated by the Amirah staff.
Art Haven is "a community space where artists of all ages and abilities are encouraged to develop creativity and confidence through hands on learning and collaboration." This organization, located in Gloucester, provides youth and adults the opportunity to create art through classes and other seasonal events. Volunteers can assist with a variety of classes, each focusing on different mediums and techniques.
Beverly Bootstraps "provides critical resources to families and individuals so they may achieve self-sufficiency." Located right in downtown Beverly, this organization provides both emergency and long-term assistance to youth and adults. Volunteer opportunities include: helping with after-school homework, assisting with adult education courses, serving in the thrift shop or food pantry, and serving in other administrative capacities. For more information on current volunteer opportunities, visit the volunteer page on the website.
Beverly Children's Learning Center
Beverly Children's Learning Center serves local families with pre-school, day care, and after school programs for children ages one month-13 years old. The BCLC focuses on providing safe, affordable, and educationally enriching childcare in a nurturing environment. Students can serve children in individual classrooms. The center is open from 7am-6 pm, Monday-Friday.
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"Justice for the grandmothers! Shinzo Abe, we are here, proof of the Japanese military's sexual slavery," Virginia Villarma, 84, shouted. "President Aquino, this is your chance. If you truly support us, convey our message to your friend, Shinzo Abe."
Villarma was 14 when Japanese forces housed her and her sister in a garrison in Manila's port area, forcing them to wash soldiers' clothes, cook food and cater to their sexual needs, she said.
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