I didn't listen to the whole thing, but I will admit that I listened to part of it and both laughed and totally related to the overall sentiment of the book.
(In the same vein, I used to make up some interesting lyrics to "Hush, Little Baby." Sleep deprivation and being awake in the wee sma's with a baby who will NOT go the f* to sleep lends itself well to making up rather violent rhymes.)
Finally home and finally saw this. It's brilliant. And true. And an example of when obscenity is perfectly suited to the occasion. And yet it's not unloving at all. I think that comes through in the video.
(The link no longer works, but when I searched YouTube on obvious search terms, I found many other copies.)
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
