EVIL .....

Facing off against the Fellowship is the evil Saruman, once the head of the Council of the Wise, who has since succumbed to the dark temptations of Sauron’s power. Saruman wants Frodo’s ring and is willing to use his specially bred Uruk-Hai — grotesque, war-like creatures -- to get it. Perhaps no one could embody Saruman better than that long-time master, Christopher Lee. Lee had played many mythical creatures before but had never been involved with a project like The Lord of The Rings. "This is the outright creation of an entire world," he says. "It brings together history and languages and cultures and makes a dreamscape come true." Although Saruman lived around 7,000 mythical years ago, Lee sees his dark reflection all over the place in the modern world. "To my way of thinking, the evil that exists today isn’t that different from what you see in Middle-earth. People will always crave power and Saruman wants Sauron’s power," he explains. "To me, he is not just the physical force of evil personified, he is also very real."

From: http://www.lordoftherings.net/index_cast.html

So .... we are watching the LOTR's trilogy again ... on DVD. It is a wonderful story and was filmed magnificantly! As I am watching this I get a couple of email alerts that someone had commented on this BLOG. This masked commentator chose to comment on some old posts about Fool's Paradise on the South Beach Diet message boards. She claims to not know the people involved, but my guess is that she is lieing. My Site Meter shows her as being from Wilmington, Delaware ... but also lists her as being in the Central Time Zone. All that means is that her Internet Server is in Delaware ... but SHE is actually in the Central US. And I do not know for sure who she is ... but I am quite sure she knows of me and people involved in those posts. Her tone of ridicule comes through loud and clear ... and rings familiar.

So .... she brought back memories of things I continue to try to put behind me. But these things just happened a few months ago ... so their pain still lingers and pops up at unexpected times in me.

I am still trying to figure out why someone would want to take a "happy place" and turn it into a "dark mean nasty place". This theme pops up all the time in literature and movie and LIFE ... and I just don't get it.

But watching the LOTR last night brought home that it is mostly just about POWER. And the quote I copied above has parallels in MANY ways, as Christopher Lee commented. In my own little world it was the Fool's Paradise message board on the South Beach Diet thread which succumbed to the dark temptations of evil and power.

Saruman was once head of the Council of the Wise ... but that wasn't enough power for him ... he wants the one ring which rules all ... and he is willing to destroy friendships and kill innocents and yank huge strong trees from the ground and create evil creatures to do his bidding .... just so he can RULE ALL. Never mind that the ALL that he wants to rule is ugly and injured and limping along in fear.

And there is the evil eye of Sauron watching over everything and sending his negative energy out, pulling in the weak and spineless. And sometimes the weak and the spineless were actually people who ruled parts of Middle-Earth. People who had the power to STOP him, but chose instead to join him ... so tempting the lure of POWER ... and so terrifying the threat of becoming his target.

Gee what parallels could I draw from all that? Where do WF and the Cats and Q and the Admins all fit into the picture? Where do I fit in? Where do all the other members of FP fit in?

Does FP even exist now?? I wonder.