[djmcmath]

My room-mate, this morning, made a parallel between Lord of The Rings and his last underway in the Navy. "The board is set, the pieces are moving" ties in with the fact that the last underway is beginning to happen, finally. "The eye of the enemy is upon us" shows the forward-looking nature of the inspection team. He's made character parallels with several of the people that he works with -- for example, his boss is clearly Gollum.

Then I realized that just the other day, my Dad had told me about a great book he had read entitled "Following Gandalf," which used the theology of J.R.R. Tolkien's characters to the age-old theological debate of predestination vs. free will. "We cannot choose the times, only what we must do with the time that is given us" fits neatly with the idea that God is always faithful to His people, and to His purpose -- the question is whether or not God's people will be faithful to God.

So now I'm curious. Anybody else have any unusual movie parallels? (Ok, so I'm anticipating a _slow_ thursday at work...)


Dan