Subject: Re: BOB linked to Coop's mom's death?
From: maas@milton.u.washington.edu (maas)
Date: 1992-09-10, 17:22
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog here...) writes:

> >In article <18mkr5INN8s5@agate.berkeley.edu> sally@anableps.berkeley.edu (S. A. Wilson) writes:
>> >>I still think that the "owl ring" is some form of "marriage bond" between
>> >>the wearer and the giver, and that it is connected to the Black Lodge, thus
>> >>it is a symbol of the wearer having sold his/her soul to the Lodge, the
>> >>"forces of Darkness."

> >Why necessarily the forces of darkness?  If you do want to look at this in
> >fundamentalist religious terms, which some folks have suggested Lynch may
> >intend, couldn't the ring simply symbolize handing control over your fate
> >to the White Lodge as well?

> >After all, you can give your soul over to Heaven as well as Hell.

Or maybe all these rings have more in common with Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings"
trilogy.  Not neccessarily all good or evil in any sense, just with a variety
of side-effects, and inter-relations.  Maybe Lynch's corrupt as well.

RMaas
maas@u.washington.edu

 --- Hey, it was just a thought, I didn't mean....

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