tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15860677.post7588231529050172426..comments2024-03-25T14:27:40.121-05:00Comments on Heart, Mind, Soul, and Strength: J K Rowling and the ResurrectionWeekend Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10425001168670801073noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15860677.post-64618030336670759832011-07-16T17:19:06.298-05:002011-07-16T17:19:06.298-05:00@Weekend Fisher, I know...Snape is a great charact...@Weekend Fisher, I know...Snape is a great character you love to hate for all those books and then get whammied by the truth at the end. <br /><br />It starts with the marvelous creation account being sung forth and then as creation goes askew by one who didn't want to follow the music, striking out on his own, made chaos. Familiar?<br /><br />The names are a bit of a mouthfull, but I took the time to look at the language (it's out there as studies/books) that T. created and built the series for us of and it is beautiful. That was years back I studied it and I don't remember squat (who speaks elvish now?).Sagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09337019503451500138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15860677.post-39715365783887673332011-07-16T15:06:54.854-05:002011-07-16T15:06:54.854-05:00Snape is definitely one of the good guys -- but as...Snape is definitely one of the good guys -- but as a double agent, he can't always get out of participating in the bad things. The books made it sound as if killing Muggles was a recreational sport for Death Eaters. Snape's decency comes in trying to give the man some warning. Under the circumstances, it's all he can do.<br /><br />That, and nobody does snarky conversations as well as Snape, so there's the other reason for him being the most likely choice for this little fanfic.<br /><br />Sage - I love LOTR, and enjoy the good Professor's work. But I never really got Silmarillion. It didn't have the same appeal for me as the rest. It sounded like -- well, hope I can explain this -- have you ever read some of the Apocryphal gospels where they sound like they're trying a little too hard to make up foreign names? Kind of like parts of the Book of Mormon sound to me. Anyway, the parts of the Silmarillion that I'd read struck me the same way. Kind of turned me off to it. Have I missed something good?Weekend Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10425001168670801073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15860677.post-76302608748259961152011-07-15T19:18:45.423-05:002011-07-15T19:18:45.423-05:00Pretty good, I liked it. I did find the last book...Pretty good, I liked it. I did find the last book to have much more "spiritual" in it than the others, especially when Harry is killed and goes to Kings Cross Station. I had hoped JK would have brought in a bit more. <br /><br />For spiritualized fiction, I love LOTR though. Tolkien's Silmarillion was masterful and a capstone to the thought process of LOTR.<br /><br />@Martin, Snape sold himself out to both sides to keep his love for Harry's mother alive in some way. I think he was too conflicted to be a true good guy.Sagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09337019503451500138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15860677.post-89347314120066311142011-07-15T18:17:01.861-05:002011-07-15T18:17:01.861-05:00I was a little surprised by this. Snape, after all...I was a little surprised by this. Snape, after all, was one of the good guys all along.Martin LaBarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14629053725732957599noreply@blogger.com