Although we can not see them, angels are indeed real. Angels occupy a realm that only a very few privileged living souls can see: the supernatural. Over the years, various Roman Catholic saints such as St. Pio and St. Faustina could see their guardian angels and even converse with them. St. Pio even sent his guardian angel on missions to deliver messages to other holy persons.
Throughout the Holy Bible and on the rare occasions that God permits angels to manifest themselves to humans, their otherworldly presence is felt by all those who can see them. Their goodness and purity are so overwhelming that it dazzles those around them. The shepherds tending their flocks in Bethlehem saw angels in the heavens at the birth of Christ and were stupefied:
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. — Luke 2: 8-12
I believe that J.R.R. Tolkien’s elves were the equivalent of angelic beings. They were revered by most of the people of Middle-earth and feared by the rest. When the hobbits were around the elves they were overwhelmed with a sense of wonder and awe.
There is one small but important scene in the extended version of The Fellowship of the Ring, that Peter Jackson managed to capture from the novels that demonstrates the hypnotic effect that the elves had on others. It is a scene called The Passing of the Elves where the elves are leaving Middle-earth for good to return to the undying lands. It is a sad and sobering demographic shift that heralds the age of men and in a strange way echoes the current predicament of Western civilization. Tolkien was a prophet like fellow Catholic Hilaire Belloc.
It is easily my most favorite and treasured scene from Jackson’s Trilogy. Together with Elizabeth Fraser’s haunting voice, the scene is cinematic perfection:
Earlier this week I was watching YouTube videos that mercilessly mock the litany of awful Galadriel (played by Morfydd Clark) fight scenes in Amazon’s Rings of Power series. It was in that instant, that an image of this scene from Jackson came to mind and I realized that this was one of the missing ingredients that doomed the series. Jackson captured light and truth in a bottle and for that, Tolkien fans are forever grateful.
It’s hard to imagine Middle-earth without the inclusion of elves. They are the stardust that gives his world incredible depth. Tolkien’s elves were ancient, dignified, virtuous, reverential, wise, holy, pure, majestic, and otherworldly. Everything that Amazon’s banal elves were not. That failure to respect, recognize, and recreate the essential magic of Tolkien’s elves is just one more reason why Rings of Power failed.
If you are a godless edgy abortion loving feminist young adult genre “writer” with a Skrillex hairstyle working for Amazon, it is impossible to have a true appreciation for Tolkien’s works. People with ugly souls cannot create beauty.
“The Shadow that bred them can only mock; it cannot make: not real, new things of its own.” — The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien
Nothing good comes out of Hollywood and the California entertainment industrial complex. Nothing.
–Wolfshead
Rings of Power is Tolkien seen and written forth by woke minds. They just cannot really understand it. As you said, nobody can see the supernatural, except for a few that are usually doubted. But most have at least a sense of it, a sense of wonder and beauty. All that is lost to the woke mind, it is absolutely blind to that.
That’s why not even countless millions and effort poured into Rings of Power could give it that sense of wonder and the supernatural, of beauty, friendship and all that.
That’s what people get nowadays, and most see and feel that it isn’t what they wanted. The directors and writers are certainly not Tolkien level, few would be, but woke as they are they have zero chance to ever understand Tolkien at all.
Amazon Studios, be it games or tv entertainment, just cannot shake off the woke agenda. That’s the bane of all their projects.
When you are diametrically opposed to the will of the Creator, you are by definition: evil. The pride of the woke Hollywood mafia has darkened their hearts. As humility is the wellspring of all virtues, pride is the reverse.
J.R.R. Tolkien is the only person that could have conceived Middle-earth and his universe. He imparted a gift to humanity that gives people clues to heaven. Christopher Tolkien knew this and protected his father’s legacy with every fiber of his being. At least Peter Jackson and his wife (both leftists) had enough humility not to want to tamper with his mythos and that’s why his films were successful.
All entertainment should glorify God in some way. Yes, it should be entertaining, but it should be instructive on how to live a righteous life. Parables, sagas, fairy tales, and folklore for thousands of contained dramas that had time-tested authentic moral instructions.
For thousands of years, the lifespan of people was brutally short. Death was always around the corner as people were dying left and right. Because of this, people had an intrinsic value for life and rightly contemplated eternity.
Today’s entertainment is destructive and of no value to a person’s soul. In fact, most of it is dangerous to a person’s soul.
In Rings of Power, I felt that Galadriel was the embodiment of evil as she was a prideful tyrant. I only watched 2 episodes, that’s all I could stomach. I actually felt sorry for Sauron having to put up with her.
We are in Weimar 2.0 right now. This era of our culture can’t get any worse. Every aspect of wokeness was created in hell and needs to be expunged from our world.