Depraved Hollyweird
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
My surviving brother and sister read the Lord of the Rings so the rest of us could be spared.
In a world of immortals and long-lived people’s, how does the “creeper factor equation” apply? (You cannot be with someone who’s age is not at least 1/2 your age +7)
Worked with an engineer who cited this often.
“The commonly cited “rule of thumb” for the minimum acceptable age of a partner is to divide your age by two and add seven (Your Age/2 + 7)
This formula, often used to gauge social acceptability, suggests that for a 50-year-old, the minimum age should be 32, while for a 24-year-old, it should be 19. “
So Arwen was robbing the cradle. However…. since she was an elf and looked much younger… (?)
(Be wise and do not mention this to your spouse. My wife disliked this engineer.)
Tolkien always doubted his writings could be effectively dramatized, and felt that the images generated by mythology are best left to the mind of the reader. Dr. Johnson offered similar criticisms to Milton’s “Paradise Lost”.
The marriage of Aragorn and Arwen looks “weird” on film because the actors are normal humans, but the characters are not. How to depict an immortal material being like Arwen, or a “longaevus” like Aragorn when the producer and audience know no living examples?