After watching The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring consider the following and respond in your blog:
Tolkien said that fairy tales have three functions:
Recovery: Think about the portrayal of the Shire. What sense was Tolkien trying to recover? Can you think of any other concepts that the film helps to recover that may seem missing from our world?
Escapism: Myths transport us to another reality in which we are able to think freely. How did seeing the film change your perspective on the reality of your world?
Consolation: 'It is a sudden and miraculous grace that is in fact evangelism, giving a fleeting feeling of Joy, Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief . . .' What elements of the film made you feel joyful?
(questions from the Damaris Film & Bible blog: http://www.damaris.org/film-and-bible-blog/2840)
II.
 1. Bruno Bettelheim, a scholar who has studied fairy tales, contends that the dark and threatening figures in fairy tales should not be sanitized; that children make use of them to work through their fears and primitive emotions. Do you agree or disagree? 2. What is the childhood fear that the Cinderella fairy tale explores? 3. Name some other fairy tales and talk about the fears or concerns of childhood that they explore. What about: Hansel and Gretel, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, or Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
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