So my wife and I took a trip to Manhattan to see the Lord of the Rings,

fellowship of the ring in concert with a whole orchestra,

and that was last night.

And in dreams.

We will go. And And I have a question, this will be the question of the day. Do people in experiencing modern life in an urban environment so the most secular people people who live in New York do they actually want a traditional society, a Christian society, deep down in some way, in some part of their

being is there something in them that misses or has a nostalgia for something that's been lost.

Now why do I ask this?

Well, the Lord of the Rings is an explicitly Christian fantasy and I don't mean that it

people are born again after they watch it.

I mean it just has a lot of parallels and assumptions that would come only from someone

who bought into somewhat of a Christian worldview.

Providence, sovereignty, purpose, a divine being that controls our destiny in

mysterious ways. Sometimes we don't always understand. Shaming the strong, using the weak to do so, there's all kinds of things we could talk about.

But here's the thing that stood out to me last night.

People in the audience reacted in ways that were exceptionally interesting. One was when

arrogant throughout the movie is foreshadowed as being the true king. People cheered and I just kept thinking to myself.

Especially in the end when Borramir is dying and he calls arrogant his king everyone cheers

Why do we want a king? And it's a fantasy. I know but why cheer for that why cheer for monarchy

monarchy is bad I thought we want democracy right but somehow that was

something that was cheered another thing that I thought was interesting is all the racial things was And he even says things like, you know, he won't be ruled by an elf, or he won't be led by an elf.

And, you know, these are the kinds of things that the audience laughs at.

When he says these kinds of things, they don't think to themselves well what a bigot they think it's funny how proud he is of his particular race in that sense.

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