“The story is about everyone. In this life are on a hero's journey--will we cave to greed and power, will we keep going even when we fall down far too many times, or will we pick ourselves up and be the best person we can be? This also showed none of us can do this journey alone! To succeed through the hard time as well as the good, we need other's helping us. It took a team to be successful! And even as good, determined, and honest a person Frodo was, he couldn't withstand the power of the dark energy. When we look at something as 'bad' in our lives, perhaps if we looked at the potential for good, we could find that sometimes are successes are due to those we least expect it from. If Gollum's greed and cunning hadn't stepped in--all would have been lost.”
“I didn't have a deep connection with LOTR until it was revealed in 2016 just how corrupted, widespread and impregnable the establishment of Washington DC had become. It has been earth-shaking to see how career politicians along with the hierarchy of the intelligence community have been working hand in hand with the mainstream media to overturn a Presidential Election. How could this be happening in the USA? Over the last few years I have seen true evil that I had never experienced before. The worst part is the helplessness of watching it all happen. I've never understood the true reality of what helplessness feels like. Now I feel that connection with the essence of Tolkien's story- the fear of helplessness and the means of overcoming an enemy so great and powerful. LOTR always seemed too clichéd before. It was the same old story of good triumphing over evil. But now that I've experienced the Washington Establishment and mainstream media and felt their malicious power I understand the existence of how hard it is to rise up and defeat something so huge. I understand how average people are scared to act because of their striking vulnerability. We literally have black-masked villains threatening groups who want to stand against the establishment. This would've never seemed possible to me years ago. I would've mistakenly presumed that people in the US wouldn't stand for corruption. But now I see how it's a person's vulnerability that keeps them from acting. To actually rise up and fight takes so much more than I ever thought possible. Because of these things LOTR has become a major inspiration for me. Whereas before I saw it as too grand and clichéd, now I see it as the perfect portrayal. The whole idea comes down to good people finding their courage and coming together to defeat evil. It's a cliché, but it has become real again.”
