28-12-2003, 11:28
Eol, recherche le mot "providence" dans la section Légendaire, et tu verras que mon "il a déjà été dit ailleurs" n'est pas un clause de style. On se demande parfois à quoi bon tisser des liens, nom de nom ;-)<p>Je ne sache pas que Tolkien ait nulle part écrit directement "la chute de Gollum est une manifestation de la Providence", mais il existe bel et bien des éléments qui montrent qu'il inclinait lui-même vers cette lecture, spécialement les lettres n° 181, 192 et 246 dont je citerai deux extraits :<p>Lettre 192 :<p><i>Frodo deserved all honour because he spent every drop of his power of will and body, and that was just sufficient to bring him to the destined point, and no further. Few others, possibly no others of his time, would have got so far. The Other Power then took over: the Writer of the Story (by which I do not mean myself), 'that one ever-present Person who is never absent and never named' (as one critic has said).</i><p>Lettre 246 :<p><i>Frodo indeed 'failed' as a hero, as conceived by simple minds: he did not endure to the end; he gave in, ratted. I do not say 'simple minds' with contempt: they often see with clarity the simple truth and the absolute ideal to which effort must be directed, even if it is unattainable. Their weakness, however, is twofold. They do not perceive the complexity of any given situation in Time, in which an absolute ideal is enmeshed. They tend to forget that strange element in the World that we call Pity or Mercy, which is also an absolute requirement in moral judgement (since it is present in the Divine nature). In its highest exercise it belongs to God. For finite judges of imperfect knowledge it must lead to the use of two different scales of 'morality'. To ourselves we must present the absolute ideal without compromise, for we do not know our own limits of natural strength (+grace), and if we do not aim at the highest we shall certainly fall short of the utmost that we could achieve. To others, in any case of which we know enough to make a judgement, we must apply a scale tempered by 'mercy': that is, since we can with good will do this without the bias inevitable in judgements of ourselves, we must estimate the limits of another's strength and weigh this against the force of particular circumstances. <br>I do not think that Frodo's was a moral failure. At the last moment the pressure of the Ring would reach its maximum – impossible, I should have said, for any one to resist, certainly after long possession, months of increasing torment, and when starved and exhausted. Frodo had done what he could and spent himself completely (as an instrument of Providence) and had produced a situation in which the object of his quest could be achieved. His humility (with which he began) and his sufferings were justly rewarded by the highest honour; and his exercise of patience and mercy towards Gollum gained him Mercy: his failure was redressed.</i><p>Je ne comprends pas l'expression "position officielle", qui est horrible en soi, elle donne l'impression d'un dogme duquel il serait interdit de s'écarter. Que veux-tu dire ?<p>J'assume complètement la lecture personnelle que je fais de cette scène cinématographique. Quand Frodon est suspendu dans le vide, je le vois bel et bien tenté de tout lâcher au propre comme au figuré. Sam lui dit tout de même à deux reprises de ne pas céder à cette tentation, ce qui fait que c'est lui qui sauve ici Frodon. Je ne mets pas en cause le plausible de la chose, je croyais d'ailleurs avoir précisé que ce n'avait rien d'absurde. Mais le sens de la scène en est profondément changé, et ce n'est pas anodin dans un ouvrage qui se présente comme une adaptation, présumant par là une continuité d'esprit avec sa source.<p>Enfin, l'argument relatif à la perplexité possible des spectateurs ne tient pas la route. Faudrait-il donc que jamais l'on ne soit surpris au cinéma, que jamais un film ne vous laisse la possibilité de plusieurs interprétations ? Quel drôle de point de vue ce serait, et si révélateur ! Surtout ne pas douter, surtout ne pas se poser de questions. Mais cette bride à l'imagination, ce manque de confiance envers les capacités de suggestion du spectateur, c'est la route directe vers la platitude, vers une réalisation qui pourra comprendre des moments agréables, mais à laquelle manqueront finesse et profondeur. <i>Le Seigneur des Anneaux</i> est bien plus que cela.<p>Moraldandil<br>