Lord of The Rings; How is This an Adventure for the Yuppie Who
Has Lost Their Way?
Tolkien followed the tradition of the Nibelunglied from Norse
Mythology of a Wife who brow beats her husband to remove all
emotion from his life so he may in turn bury that part in his
children and kill all logical opposition to him. For if he can
not control his own life or wife's, who else can he push around
besides his children?
This is the predecessor for all Dragon stories. Not only that it
is the original story of a ring of extraordinary powers one must
renounce all love for. Roma for Amor, the ring is the symbol of
marriage that traps some women in the cave of subconscious
repression of a bad emotion. The fear of financial security
coupled with social opinion. But where does this start, when did
it happen, Who's fault is it, and how to change it?
The story starts with Frigga, Odin's second wife representing
civilization's triumph over his first wife of Nature, condemning
the fear of an incestuous relationship of Sieglinde and
Siegmund. This pair is also present in the relationship of
Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker, the pair separated at birth in
the life of a borderline child. The emotions are never validated
within the family and forced to be second guessed which should
of naturally been accepted in healthy homes. Before a child
takes any action with consequence, career or marriage, he must
bridge his emotional (Princess Leia/Sieglinde) with their
Logical (Luke Skywalker/Siegmund) thinking. This motif is
represented by the pair crossing the chasm through a leap of
faith (Fool card in Traot) or walking a razor's edge between the
two modes of thinking. The Goal is to gain employment (Logic)
but which employment (Emotion). But Frigga has her husband to
act on her behalf.
Now Odin, the megalomaniac ego that replaces emotional thinking
for fear and consequence, now kills opposition where he can and
removes the logical thinking and the self directed action from
his children. By killing Siegmund. This is spurred on by
Siegmund pulling the sword out of the tree, symbol of decisive
action upon a goal. The fear of opposition to his weak ego, the
child is suppressed and the anger toward the wife or mother is
transferred. Like the Bully that is beaten in the home robs the
milk money of the nerd.
After the death of Siegmund and the pieces of the broken sword
are collected, sieglinde is hidden by Brunhilda in the east
forest guarded by the Dragon Fafner. The sword Islidor breaks
opposing Saurian, is the same sword that Siegmund finds in the
tree which his son Siegfired like Aragorn will wield later. The
east forest sieglinde is hidden in is the subconscioussnes of
the inner child. The east represents the beginning and new
start. The child of borderline parents, like the child, has a
stunted development and is removed from access to adulthood.
Only when a person has its emotions validated and has self
direction in its action to attain its goals, in many ways it
still reacts to the world much like a child and looks for others
to make decisions and tell it how it feels. Its direction comes
from Fox news, the mate, boss, or parent. Now Brunhilda is the
emotional stirring that still remains in Odin, the father, that
is entrapped after the scorn from his wife of Sieglinde
escaping. Brunhilda is circled by fire until a hero can free
her.
Now Sigelinde carries the seed of the logic of he dead brother.
For even in the Dao symbol, there is a little white hole in
black and vice versa. Emotional thinking caries a spark of logic
that can grow. For her child Siegfried will become the dragon
slayer. The Dragon is the generational and cultural split that
pervades in families to bring societies into the wasteland
expressed in T.H. Whites poem. The King and the land are one. As
long Odin is separated in his thinking, so is the land in which
the patriarchs or patriots of the country control. As after
September 2001, it can be seen what happens when emotions from
outside create fear in men to ignore their own emotions to ride
a band wagon and put the their actions into others to invade
countries that do not oppose any logical threat. Now Siegfried
will have his father's sword put back together again to slay the
dragon. Like Aragorn.
After the slaying of the dragon, Siegfired will free Brunhilda
and return emotional thinking to Odin the father. In alchemy the
megalomaniac ego is called the sennex. In the Grail Cycle it is
the Fischer King whose creative powers were staunch by a groin
injury from raping a maiden at a well. Siegfried brings love and
compassion to Brunhilda. This act overcomes the fear thinking
that Frigga, civilization over nature, has bestowed upon her
husband Odin. This is also seen in Nineteenth century
architecture in America. Federalism was the response of better
ships and the math of probability in shipping insurance that
seemed to overcome nature. What in the previous century was
exposed natural wood was covered up for painted wainscoting and
wall paper. Everything man mad or improved was better than the
poor man's natural finishing. Merchant over farmer. Christianity
over paganism. Siegfried as Tolkien hoped his story world answer
to the strip mining that was going on in his England merge
civilization to nature. Ents and all. The wasteland is the void
before the merger. But till then the sennex will not accept the
son, Siegfried, until he has a better course of action than
Frigga. The sons answer will not be accepted wholesale, but
digested and absorbed to bring about a better and more
individual answer than what the son brought. The son will give
self determination, motivation, and acquisition of the self to
the father.
Now to the person who started this all. Remember our foreparents
had to fight ice age, Frost storms, draughts, famine,
earthquakes, and unpredictable herds. Nature seemed to be a
fickle parent. So man strove for technology and civilization to
bring order and control to the world it feared. Civilization
made us separate from the world that threatened us. Today we can
be locked in our environment controlled homes. Even in the
hottest summer sun in the Sahara, men can drive Hummers with A/C
setting the interior to 60 degrees. But who has become our safe
keepers? Those that promote the fear and separation. Frigga as
civilization and fear removes our natural mother in the earth
and instinct. Granted for a time in our world expressed in
Tribal oriented societies in the third world up to the beginning
of the last century had maintained a balance between
civilization and nature. They had the latest technology but not
the latest fashion out of Paris. They had people coordinate
society lives and not dictate. Frigga has grown to large degrees
in the way of woman since the suffrage movement. Woman gave up
the emotional grounding they gave children for goal setting.
Love became conditional on success. At the same time men came
back from two great Wars broken and not able to nurture their
children but push forward their wives ambitions. If the spoke up
it was aggressive and logical only. This has been prevalent in
most of the worlds leading classes, with queens like Katherine
of Aragon positioning of her wealth and power against her
Husband Henry the Second. Just watch the Lion and Winter to see
what happened to their children that became the predecessors of
English Law that w find in America today. With the rise of
economic success, we have seen the rise of latch key kids and
children sent to boarding schools. The Ruling class disease is
prevalent through the world. The disease that does not let the
father bring emotional support to the children if the Mother
wants to pursue her goals outside of the family. To the slurs of
Mr. Mom. Frigga is the woman that is opposed to her own
emotional non logical and some times passive side. Frigga's
separation from her self and lack of control is found within
that of the husband and child. If she can not control herself,
she controls those in her life and the world around her in the
home at least.
After the freeing of Brunhilda to allow Odin's support of his
logic with that of his emotions, Siegfried has freed him to use
the sword to discern for himself his own direction that is
finally guide by the balance of emotional validation and the
knowledge of logic to become truly a king in his head to
coordinate all his skills and wisdom to action and
accomplishment of his dreams. In doing so he heals Frigga and
society. Society learns to live in nature, not against but with.
Alternative fuel sources and biodegradable resources that
function and out perform hazardous ones of the past.
The song remains the same but the tune changes. In the Twelve
hundreds the cultural response to this story in England and
Europe was the Grail Cycle with fashionable Knights of the Round
Table. In the beginning of the Twentieth century, it was Norse
heroes fighting for the ring to control in the Lord of the
Rings. Ring of marriage that controls many to forsake love of
thyself. For when the ring is that of wealth and position, it is
deadly. For when ring becomes more important than love, it is
too powerful. True marriage comes with true love of oneself
first. Without that you only have a ring, and you will never
understand how to love another. So to Frigga the ring was the
wealth and control of her spouse to provide for her against the
her fear of nature and the pieces of herself.
All that from a fairy Tale?