Light and Darkness

Rating: 9/10 (6 January 2013)

The wonder of a good walk is the wonder of these stories about our shared journey. It may not always look like the places we have been, but it sure feels like it on the journey. We begin at home with the visitors and their strange ways and nagging demands on our time . What a fun individual crew they will turn out to be . We are surely, like them , destined to enjoy our differences and celebrate our uniqueness. This scene though breaks up and we find ourselves alone again ; longing to be in a place that's just like home. We like to be together , but we need our day of rest . God bless them mums; they do the dishes ; this Hobbit home maybe only ever just a flighty fantastic fantasy, but its sure serious fun to be there at such times of sharing. The formed and fashioned friendships too remind us too of what we can do together in the toughest of times by being strong in ourselves. Who would ever forget Golon and his lonely, precarious life and reasoning; Naked and exposed, he's us all over. I hope Peter and the team will capture the real blackness of some of the remaining dark tunnels in the next edition by telling the story as Job does in his chapter about the mine. If there was one thing I missed in all the action in the Hobbit - it was "the words" . Galdalf says a few powerful things - his power is not much in the magic but in his understanding - when he says "the world can change if we all spin the moment" he's pointing to really big picture positive stuff that the kids of today really need http://dogood.blogspot.com. Yes we are all creatures who dig, but we dig differently in diverse places and spaces . We get different amounts of "gold" and we all get distracted by " fools gold", forgetting that Gold is always a gift and can be found just about anywhere . The tangible and real adventure for all of us is to find gold in places we have personally discovered deep in in our own lonely journeys into dark places . The films limits? At times I think the re-creators are too busy with lights, mirrors and action to push the punchy place of the words that really powerful men speak. Peter Jackson has done very well to bring us these wonders . I wish the team well as they send us down again into the depths and the darkness. The wonder of these journeys and their potential to motivate is that,just like even in Plato's cave ,the light is ever present, despite the darkness and the depth of trauma .With light and understanding out there, there is no reason to stay at home in a cave all the time. Peter you have done very very well to both take us there and bring us home again. The West sure needs to re-find that place of rest again.