Gandalberg's Use Of Courage In Film

“I wish none of this had happened.” (Frodo, LOTR:FOTR, Jackson), “So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” (Gandalf, LOTR:FOTR, Jackson). This adaptation of one of Tolkien’s original lines, illustrates the presence and method of implementation of the the virtue of courage in the films. Frodo is told that as much as it hurts to be alive during dark and tumultuous time, he must focus on the choices he has. Gandalf insists that he must rise to this great challenge, with the time that is given to them. By rising to this voluminous challenge, he must have courage and repeatedly demonstrate it. This encapsulates Peter Jackson’s idea of courage.

Furthermore, the endowment of courage was momentous to metamorphose of the character’s integrity. To enumerate, the members of the fellowship had to exhibit courage to suppress the threat of great evil. More specifically, they confided in the power of courage, “Sauron moves to strike the city of Minas Tirith. His defeat at Helm's Deep showed our Enemy one thing… Men are not as weak as he supposed. There is courage still, strength enough perhaps to challenge him. Sauron fears this.” (Gandalf, LOTR:ROTK, Jackson), “I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day… This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand! Men of the West!” (Aragorn, LOTR:ROTK, Jackson). Consequently, these quotations were followed with a scene filled with triumph, coupled with a scene that transpires into triumph; being the Battle at the Black Gate (Battle of the Morannon) and the Charge of the Rohirrim to Minas Tirith. From a reluctant forthcoming king, to fully embracing his newfangled title, Aragorn underwent an integral alteration, by being courageous enough to take his rightful