Lord of the Rings and Supernatural: Gotta toast the Professor
It's January 3rd, Tolkien's birthday! Please join me in the traditional raising of a glass and toast: "To the Professor!"
Because there are gazillion parallels between The Lord of The Rings and Supernatural, which the show itself has highlighted in recent years... Not only mention of the Ring...or Charlie reading her dying mom "The Hobbit"...or the fact that Dean's favorite song (Ramblin' On) is a Led Zeppelin song featuring a bunch of LOTR references... but the fact that Sam and Dean's journey has come to resemble Frodo and Sam's much more than it ever did Luke and Han's. (I take it the Star Wars characters were a bit of a template for the brothers at first, but Supernatural became much too myth laden for that to suit over the long term.)
I have loved LOTR with a quiet passion forever, and now I love Supernatural the same. If anybody mistakes this little CW show for fluff, they are tragically, terribly wrong. It is a thing of sublime beauty and power.
So... to the Professor! And to Supernatural, too!
Because there are gazillion parallels between The Lord of The Rings and Supernatural, which the show itself has highlighted in recent years... Not only mention of the Ring...or Charlie reading her dying mom "The Hobbit"...or the fact that Dean's favorite song (Ramblin' On) is a Led Zeppelin song featuring a bunch of LOTR references... but the fact that Sam and Dean's journey has come to resemble Frodo and Sam's much more than it ever did Luke and Han's. (I take it the Star Wars characters were a bit of a template for the brothers at first, but Supernatural became much too myth laden for that to suit over the long term.)
I have loved LOTR with a quiet passion forever, and now I love Supernatural the same. If anybody mistakes this little CW show for fluff, they are tragically, terribly wrong. It is a thing of sublime beauty and power.
So... to the Professor! And to Supernatural, too!