The Hunt for Gollum

You may have already seen this elsewhere online, but if you haven't, it's a remarkable accomplishment. Budget of less than $5,000. (And just to answer a question you may wonder about for a second, no those are not the same actors.)

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

5 thoughts on “The Hunt for Gollum”

  1. For Only five thousand bucks this is one the best produced mini-movie I’ve ever seen, in fact I’d put it up there with the BSG mini-series.

  2. Ooh, I had heard of this, but I haven’t had a chance to hunt it down. Thanks, Jimmy!

  4. Like Aquinas finding what was good in Aristotle and Paul finding good in the Greek’s statue to the unknown God, I’m always fascinated when “rock” music intersects with Scripture and with existential truth and with that happening within bands that could otherwise be warned against for the young and rightly so. Led Zeppelin made implicitly Christian use of this Gollum mythology in that in their song “Rambling On”, Gollum and the evil one creep up and take the singer’s lady and he spends himself for her… i.e. on searching the earth for her from then on (a great metaphor of a woman falling from grace for a Christian husband as to the permanence of how he must seek after a wife that takes such a turn …and how he must follow both Osee and God in their implacable love of the fallen).
    Like the Stones’ “Wild Horses”, it deals with the eros bond as serious and incredibly deep… even if Jagger and others did not live that out in their lives (Angus Young of ACDC is married 25 years or more though that is not everything and he too will have to answer for many bad lyrics as in the “Razor’s Edge” album which adversely affect those many bobbing heads that follow them).
    Some of Zepellin on Gollum:
    http://www.lyricsfreak.com/l/led+zeppelin/ramble+on_20082096.html

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