LJ played up on me, as this hasn't arrived in my inbox... :-/
I see - the article's author did not imply all those things I did... Now I also see that I didn't mean 'divorce' as a counter to the Catholic sacrament (they ban divorce and so would deem certain things threatening), but perhaps as: the Ring must first 'separate' in order to make 'one' with something else, something that would not have entered into it otherwise. Galadriel states that the Ring makes one alone; however it remains questionable how much and on which levels it succeeds in 'divorcing' Frodo and Sam (it separates Frodo from his Shire memories, etc, it tries to sow mistrust and separates their destinies in the end, but doesn't ever break the bond - and would it try to mould them together in a different type of relationship afterwards, or suggest such? Many things in LotR deal with such an altered reality, in the sense that you have the same elements, but with a differing core, evil mocking good).
Other facets? I can now imagine the article better from how you describe it... I can imagine its limitations in the same sense that it takes several elements and combines them to provide an interpretation, but disregarding (a little bit) the *pre-existing* relationship between those elements. Am I correct?
I see - the article's author did not imply all those things I did...
Now I also see that I didn't mean 'divorce' as a counter to the Catholic sacrament (they ban divorce and so would deem certain things threatening), but perhaps as: the Ring must first 'separate' in order to make 'one' with something else, something that would not have entered into it otherwise. Galadriel states that the Ring makes one alone; however it remains questionable how much and on which levels it succeeds in 'divorcing' Frodo and Sam (it separates Frodo from his Shire memories, etc, it tries to sow mistrust and separates their destinies in the end, but doesn't ever break the bond - and would it try to mould them together in a different type of relationship afterwards, or suggest such? Many things in LotR deal with such an altered reality, in the sense that you have the same elements, but with a differing core, evil mocking good).
Other facets? I can now imagine the article better from how you describe it... I can imagine its limitations in the same sense that it takes several elements and combines them to provide an interpretation, but disregarding (a little bit) the *pre-existing* relationship between those elements. Am I correct?
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