the war part is so so only. but the daemon concept is interesting, your soul is living outside as daemon and will appear like an animal which resemble your character. Let's say you are loyal then your daemon will appear as dog. If you slap your daemon means you are slapping your soul ... haha.

also the ice bear is cute ... ya I know they suppose to be fierce and strong, but still I think they are cute. wish I can get one as pet

aiya ... dun be so picky I've seen war scene that is even worse. This one is ok ok liao.

LOTR is talked about greed of human nature and the corruption power that make ppl suffer (there're sources say he hinted Nazi here).

His dark materials trilogy is more on telling the horror of having religion control on our thought, make us do not questions on universe, blind the children mind by saying this is only the decision from God and nothing else. The ultimate objective of religion is to make us sinless, but ask yourself, don't you become mindless zombie when all the sin was taken away from you?