Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Ecological Grief, Individuation, and Internal Family Systems
Popcorn Psychology
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Tolkien and the Shire
There's such profound grief with moving forward in your life you know from one stage of life to the next which is what we're seeing here too like they once were happy little hobbits and now they are part of their warriors in this huge battle that is so much bigger than them. Tolkien himself was a soldier in World War I in the trenches and most of his company did not return. We see that theme playing out with the ad in who's refusing to help Gondor and we see Pippen who just wants to go back to the Shire and pretend all this isn't happening.
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