Lord of the Rings is more culturally significant to me than John Lennon

Posted by Abi on Friday, November 18, 2011
Yoko Ono has this thing on Viðey (an island just off the shore from Reykjavík) called the Imagine Peace Tower. It's to do with John Lennon and they turn it on sometime in October, as far as I recall. It is basically a beacon of light that shines up into the sky. I assume it is supposed to make us "imagine peace", but really it just makes me think that the Witch-King of Angmar is leaving Minas Morgul.

5 comments:

  1. pater familias20 November 2011 at 13:42

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/krik/5235711673/
    looks like they spoiled the view... Yoko Ono is truly misguided,I like much of John Lennon's music but this installation makes me think lack of imagination and respect. Now if a Witch-King were to appear... that would be something I would like to see.

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  2. Jono20 November 2011 at 19:35

    I think it's totally a generational issue, but Tolkien will be around longer. As long as we can imagine anything we want, whenever we want, it's a good thing.

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  3. Abi21 November 2011 at 14:25

    Dad, that photo is well misleading and looks heavily doctored to me. Maybe it looks like that some of the time. It is usually a lot fainter and fuzzier (due to the popularity of clouds in Iceland) and generally not very impressive. But then I've never been down to the seashore to look at it, and have only seen it from downtown / Vesturbær.

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  4. Professor Batty22 November 2011 at 04:54

    Another view:

    http://flippistarchives.blogspot.com/2009/10/mondays-in-iceland-at-last.html

    I found it to be charming.

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  5. Abi22 November 2011 at 09:23

    I have no objection to it! It's OK, I just choose to misinterpret it for my own amusement.

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