The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

81Living historically.

The courage is taking the burden. The point is not to wield it.

The review

The Shire is small on purpose. The Ring is the offer to make it large by force, and every strong person in the film is tempted to call that offer wisdom. Frodo's work is to keep walking toward the one place the thing can be unmade. Sam's work is to keep Frodo from going as no one.

A child old enough for the dark parts can take the council and the company. Do not let the battles become the memory. The sentence to keep is that the powerful thing is the thing you refuse to use.

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Keep The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in the record.

The Gamgee house filed 81. The courage is taking the burden. Sam still cooks. That is the scene we kept.

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The glance

Industry is the thin one.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

The eight

7
Industry
The Shire is gardens, meals, and a job of work. Sam still cooks on the road.
8
Household
He leaves home so the home can stay. One friend will not let the leaving be alone.
8
Piety
There is a good older than the Ring. The story does not treat it as a style.
9
Courage
He takes it when the great ones will not, and Boromir spends his last breath on the hobbits.
8
Republic
Nine peoples sit one council and send a company, not a king with a weapon.
8
Temperance
The Ring is the want for power. Bearing it is the trial. Wanting it is not the lesson.
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Truth
Boromir breaks, and then he tells the truth while he still can.
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Stewardship
They carry the one thing that must not be used, so other people's children can keep a garden.

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Master and Commander

81Living historically.

The closest thing on a screen to the standard itself. A ship is a house with a hull.

The review

Aubrey wants the chase. Maturin wants the natural world, and the wounded men, and the argument. The ship holds both, which is why the film feels like a complete life and most action pictures feel like a trailer. Nobody is ironic about duty. Nobody is rewarded for a mood.

It is a British navy in the Napoleonic years, not a Massachusetts farm, and it still teaches the republican virtues better than most movies set in America: competence, a chain of responsibility, courage that obeys, truth between friends, and a community small enough that every death has a name. If you keep one film for a son, or for yourself on a bad year, make it this one. Then go do something hard, properly, with other people.

Journal

Keep Master and Commander in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.