Fan video- A Knife In The Dark English version

The healer is inside each one that seeks their own improvement, be emotional or spiritual. To heal others, we must first heal ourselves. Deal with our wounds, fears and shadows and seek our healing. The more we deepen our knowledge of ourselves, the deeper we reach our wounds and started our journey to transform our shadows into virtues. This fan video was created with this intention, the search for a cure, and the search of the healer. It has three central figures present in Tolkien’s works, the Black Knights, also called Nazgûl¹ representing our fears, Aragorn, representing the inner warrior and Arwen Undómiel, representing the strength and feminine intuition.
In this scene to the film The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring, Frodo is wounded by the Witch King of Angmar. Fear was the main weapon of the Nazgul. In his fight for life Frodo  prayed for Elbereth – one of the Valar who say listen to the supplications of those in need. Then Aragorn comes with fire and sword, and he fight against the Nazgul. The next scene is the pursuit of Arwen by the Nazgul, and her fight to save Frodo’s life. Surrounded by the Nazgul, she brings in herself the love of Aragorn and the strength and feminine intuition, which seems to shine around it in the form of a white light. When she crosses the river, representing the threshold between two worlds, she stops the persecution of the Nazgul, facing them. With his sword, she invokes the powers of water and its people, thus defeating the Black Knights.

The probable origin² of the Nazgul as Black Riders would have been based on Tolkien’s recurring nightmare, result of his meeting  with the German cavalry, during the First World War. Tolkien, and his wonderful horse, have been lost behind German lines, and wondering what was behind his own trenches, went toward a group of riders who were resting under the trees. However, as he approached he realized his mistake, without, however, can disguise their presence. Thus began a fierce persecution of the German knights to Tolkien, who because of his mount’s faster, robust, and accustomed to long hunts escaped. Years later, Tolkien turned his fear into one of the most exciting sequences of his book The Lord of the Rings, and why not one of the most beautiful sequences of The Fellowship of the Ring by Peter Jackson, based on his work. Probably at that moment if the young Tolkien did not call your inner warrior and fight for his life, he would not survive to their persecutors. Also if Tolkien did not transform their nightmares into tales narrated in his books, he probably would not be the great writer that he was destined to be.

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References and Subtitles

1. To learn more about the Nazgul visit http://www.valinor.com.br/8439/

2. Narrative found at the following site http://duvendor.com.br/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=357

3. Photo of Tolkien in his military uniform in 1916. Available in http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien

4. Fan video produced by Ana Cris. Imagens from the movie The Lord of the Rings-The Fellowship of the Rings, produced by Peter Jackson. Copyright Warner Bros. Music “A Knife In The Dark” by Howard Shore.

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Fan video- A Knife In The Dark

O curador está dentro de cada ser que busca o seu aperfeiçoamento, quer seja emocional ou espiritual. Para curar os outros, temos que inicialmente curar a nós mesmos. Acessar as nossas feridas, os nossos medos e sombras e buscar a nossa cura. Quanto mais aprofundarmos o nosso conhecimento sobre nós mesmos, mais profundamente atingimos as nossas feridas e iniciamos a nossa jornada de transformar as nossas sombras em virtudes. Esse vídeo foi criado com essa intenção, a busca da cura, a busca do curador. Ele traz três figuras centrais presente na obra de Tolkien, os Cavaleiros Negros, também chamados de Nazgûl¹, representando nossos medos,  Aragorn, representando o guerreiro interno e Arwen Undómiel, representando a força e intuição feminina.

Nessa cena do filme O Senhor dos Anéis – A sociedade do Anel, Frodo é ferido pelo Rei Bruxo de Angmar. O medo era a principal arma dos Nazgûl. Em sua luta pela vida Frodo chama em oração por Elbereth – um dos Valar que dizem escutar as súplicas daqueles que precisam. Então surge Aragorn que com fogo e espada luta contra os Nazgûl. A cena seguinte é a perseguição de Arwen pelos Nazgûl e sua luta para salvar a vida de Frodo. Cercada pelos Nazgûl, ela traz consigo o amor de Aragorn e a força e intuição feminina, que parece brilhar envolta dela na forma de uma luz branca. Quando ela cruza o rio, representando o limiar entre dois mundos, ela para a perseguição dos Nazgûl, enfrentando-os. Com sua espada, ela invoca os poderes das águas e de seu povo, derrotando assim os cavaleiros negros.

A provável origem dos Nazgûl como Cavaleiros Negros teria sido baseada num pesadelo² recorrente de Tolkien resultado de seu encontro, durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial com a cavalaria alemã. Tolkien, cavalgando  um admirável cavalo de cavalaria, havia se perdido atrás das linhas alemãs e, imaginando que estivesse atrás de suas próprias trincheiras, seguiu em direção a um grupo de cavaleiros montados que descansavam à sombra das árvores. No entanto, à medida que se aproximava percebeu o seu erro, sem, no entanto, conseguir despistar a sua presença. Com isso iniciou-se uma perseguição feroz dos cavaleiros alemães a Tolkien, que devido a sua montaria ser mais veloz, robusta e acostumada a longas caçadas conseguiu escapar. Anos mais tarde, Tolkien transformava o seu medo numa das sequências mais emocionantes de seu livro O Senhor dos Anéis, e por que não dizer numa das sequências mais belas da A Sociedade do Anel, filme de Peter Jackson, baseado em sua obra. Provavelmente se naquele momento o jovem Tolkien não chamasse o seu guerreiro interior e lutasse por sua vida, ele não sobreviveria aos seus perseguidores. Igualmente se Tolkien não transformasse seus pesadelos em contos narrados em seus livros, ele provavelmente não seria o grande autor que ele estava destinado a ser.

Referências e Subtitulos

1. Para saber mais sobre os Nazgûl visite o site http://www.valinor.com.br/8439/

2. Narrativa encontrada no seguinte endreço http://duvendor.com.br/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=357

3. Foto de Tolkien, no seu uniforme militar, em 1916. Disponível em http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien

4.  Fan video produzido por Ana Cris. Cenas extraidas do filme O Senhor dos Anéis- A Sociedade dos Anéis, produzido por Peter Jackson. Direitos autorais da Warner Bros. Música “The Knife In The Dark”, de Howard Shore.

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I’m not going there!

Grandma Moon always told me that there are only two worlds, your world, which is the real world and other worlds. These last are the fruit of human imagination. In them the reality, time and truth are not important. The important is that these worlds exist and give meaning to their world, and that’s all that matters. One of these worlds is the world of dreams. This world is populated by numerous fantastic and magical beings, like fairies, elves and angels, but there are also scary beings as ghosts, witches, monsters and bogeymen. But the worst of these is-Tutu Maramba, or just Tutu.

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The Tutus do not have forms, are like shadows, so they can appear in the shape of any animal, such as the alligator, which is now called alligator-tutu or simply Cuca. Grandma said that the Tutus are things ourselves that are carelessly inside us, things we do not like and put in a dark and well hidden place. Except that one day they begin to grow. They sometimes moan and scream and cause some pain, and the more you run the Tutus always seem to reach you, but usually at this time we wake up. The whole world thinks the best way to deal with the Tutus is to stay still under the covers, squeeze the pillow and never go into the world of dreams. But Grandma says no, that our fear of facing them is that feeds the Tutus, and they would be so big, so ugly and so scary that even the ghosts, witches, monsters and bogeymen are afraid of them!

Grandma says that the best way to deal with the Tutus is open your heart and take care of them, try to understand them. She says they scream because we scream so loud that they think this is how we talk normally. And they run after us, because we running them and so they cannot tell us what they want. But if they say what they want, they usually go away. – But Grandma, they’re so ugly, so scary, I said, and stuck me under the covers again. And grandma put me on her lap and said I just call the Murucututu, which is a little owl of the yellow belly. The owl said Grandma with her sharp vision sees in the dark things that others cannot. And so they have great wisdom. The owl will help her to see precisely how the Tutus really are. And grandma put me on her lap and sang until I fell asleep and with the owl on my shoulder I could enter the world of dreams, because the Tutus were no more ugly and not so great!

References and Subtitles/ Referências e legendas

1. Richard Armitage read “I’m Not Going Out There!” by Paul Bright, on the BBC children’s channel CBeebies.

2. The Cuca is a major mythological beings of Brazilian folklore, which was immortalized by the TV adaptation of child books of Monteiro Lobato, the Yellow Woodpecker Ranch.

3. Guy of Gisborne performed by Richard Armitage, Robin Hood. Serie TV (BBC) and Until it Sleeps performed by Metallica. Produced by Ana Cris. Images from Elvira. Software Pinnacle Studio HD.

4.  Murucututu-de-barriga-amarela/Tawny-browed Owl (Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana). Images from http://luis.impa.br/foto/birdindexframes/murucututu-de-barriga-amarela

5. Lucas performed by Richard Armitage, Spooks. Serie TV (BBC). Produced by Ana Cris. Images from http://www.richardarmitagenet.com/. Software Windows Live Movie Maker

6. Song from MAWACA. Allundé, Alluyá (African prayer lullaby song). Murucututu (Traditional Brazilian lullaby). The ‘mbira’ African are used to entertain children as they have a gentle, hypnotic sound. The two lullabies “Allundé, Alluyá ‘and’ Murucututu ‘are connected by an instrument known as’ kalimba’, who arrived in Brazil at the hands of black slaves, being absorbed into the indigenous culture, which came to be called the sansa. “Allundé, Alluyá” calls for protection to the sun god for the children of the tribe and the Brazilian song “Murucututu” asks the owl to let the boy sleep soundly. Murucututu is the name of an owl from the forest, invoked by mothers to give indigenous children sleep. 

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