tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post745923135679275221..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Chesterton On Chivalry in WarAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-36634303312558391822010-03-27T20:32:04.858-04:002010-03-27T20:32:04.858-04:00There was a time when one of my siblings was of th...There was a time when one of my siblings was of that mind: he thought that all wars were evil.<br /><br />During the same time, one of our favorite pieces of fantasy literature (Tolkien's <i>Lord of the Rings</i>) was delivered to the Silver Screen by Peter Jackson. <br /><br />I had learned to stay away from certain subjects if I wanted peace and quiet, but I noted to myself that the battle of Aragorn and Borommir with the Orcs, and the later struggles of the Rohirrim and of Gondor against the power of Saruman and Morder, were war.<br /><br />And my sibling, who was adamantly of the opinion that war was evil, cheered the heroes on in their struggle.<br /><br />It could have been that he was too enthralled in the story to notice, or he had a barrier in his mind between the fictional world and the real world. <br /><br />More recently, his thoughts have shown some evidence of mature deliberation, rather than fads of the liberal stripe. He's even quoted Chesterton to me...I haven't yet decided to ask him if he's met Chesterton's discussion of the good and evil of war.karrdehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00205160745963596856noreply@blogger.com