(Click through for full size)It makes me think of that wonderful passage from Return of the King:
"And it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise." (ROTK, Book 6, Chapter IX: The Grey Havens).They repurposed it for the movies, but I liked their usage:
Pippin: I didn't think it would end this way.And then I think of Annie Lenox's marvelous treatment of 'Into the West' at the end of the ROTK soundtrack.
Gandalf: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass... And then you see it.
Pippin: What? Gandalf?... See what?
Gandalf: White shores... and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.
Pippin: [smiling] Well, that isn't so bad.
Gandalf: [softly] No... No it isn't.
Namárië.
3 comments:
A beautiful painting. Thanks for the link.
Reminds me of the (better) art at the gallery of a science fiction convention I attended twice.
Very good.
I know many people don't like Tom B. and were glad almost all remnants of his chapter were excised from the films. And from a cinematic point of view, that may have been the right choice--it could have been done very embarassingly. But to me it was the loss of a facet of the book's sense of deep time. And the chill of the barrow downs would have made great cinema.
thanks for the comment, Jason! you are the world's biggest Bombadil fan. yes, hard to imagine getting it right.
was it any comfort to hear TB's words in the voice of Treebeard in the Extended Edition (assuming you've seen/own it...)?
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