The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting

Abstract

There is a powerful metaphor for the world of unmetabolised ancestral trauma in a scene from The Two Towers (Tolkien, 1965), the middle volume of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy which is hauntingly depicted in Peter Jackson’s film of the same name (Jackson, Osborne, Walsh, & Ordesky, 2001-2003).