The Yardstick to Measure the Depth of One's Heart

Rating: 10/10 (14 July 2004)

Tolkien, I believe, wrote the Lord of the Rings to bring shame to mankind.
Lord of the Rings shows our world what true love and friendship is. When we see the sacrifices made, we can see that true heroism is motivated by a heart that is not self-serving but based on doing what is right and true for its own sake.
LOTR displays man as being weak in heart and easily susceptible to corruption and selfishness. Just like our world.
The love and friendship the Hobbits had towards each other and the world in which they live in was meant to bring shame towards our world.
In Tolkien's eyes, our world was driven mad by technology and selfishness. (The Orcs) We live in a world that is somewhat similar to the world of Middle Earth. Our world is saturated by orcs!
When one feels that the Hobbits in LOTR were displaying something homosexual in the end by hugging each other, its only because they themselves have never experienced that kind of love and close comradeship that the Hobbits had for one another. When it comes down to it, those of you that hated this movie, hates it because it is alien to your own heart.
Those who have hearts that are steeped in selfishness, lust and corruption will hate this last installment to what can only be the greatest movie of all time.
The Lord of the Rings is monumental in its achievement and importance in order to make all of us look towards ourselves and be ashamed that we live in a world that is so corrupt and self-seeking. "Its a Dog-eat-dog World" I sincerely wish that we lived in a world that had the same characteristics as middle earth minus the evil that was present.
Sometimes we need fantasy to escape from the "reality" that our world is steeped in. Sometimes we need fantasy to wish for a world that is better than ours. It is why so many people need get drunk or get stoned. We need to escape from the reality that our world puts us in. Face it, our world has practically lost the meaning of what Love is. Or at the very least, love isn't practiced consistently anymore. Lust has replaced love for the majority of people today. And it takes a movie such as LOTR to show us an alien world that is better than ours in so many ways.
If you have a heart, then this movie will lift yours to unprecedented heights. If you don't have a good heart, then this movie will probably gag you and seem boring and pointless.
BTW, The eagles couldn't enter or even get close to Mordor while Sauron lived. Sauron's power was far too overwhelming for the eagles.
Lord of the Rings will endure as long as there are people who have a heart that know what love is. Looking at our world, its seems that this may be a short stint in history.
Kudos goes to Peter Jackson and everyone involved in bringing to the world something as wonderful as the Lord of the Rings. I am just glad to be alive to see these amazing trilogy of movies that have set a new standard in which movies must try to compete with.
ROTK is in 3rd position on IMDb, but deserves to be Number 1. At least it is, in my heart.