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On this page I will try to "explain" everything in and around the lodge. It's just my personal point of view,
so you're free either to accept or decline the things I'm telling you in here... ;-)
Anouncement.
Soon, this page will be updated with information on:
- Mrs. Tremond/Chalfont
- The Grandson
- Phillip Jeffries
- The Hooded Man
- The Woodman
- Judy
- The Monkey
So, please do return to the site!
Make your choice of subject or just scroll down.
Garmonbozia
Just like real earthly human beings the lodge inhabitants need some sort of food. Since they are no real
physical beings, they also consume different things. The name of their food is Garmonbozia and it's
showed to us in the form of creamed corn.
Garmonbozia embodies all the emotions (good as well as
bad) caused by the lodge inhabitants when they have "entered" a human and taken over control. For
example, BOB "inhabited" Leland for a long while. All the emotions caused by BOB inhabiting Leland,
like rage and lust, are "food" for BOB. He lives like a parasite. He "attaches" himself to a human and
feeds on that person's emotions. These emotions can in some sort of way be transformed to
garmonbozia in the lodge. The garmonbozia probably gave BOB the opportunity to escape the other Lodge inhabitants. As he was Mike's Familiar (servant spirit) he probably had to go out and get the garmonbozia for Mike. While he did this he probably kept a little amount of the garmonbozia for himself, instead of giving everything to Mike. In that way it was possible for BOB to develop a great power so that he could get away from Mike.
Fire Walk With Me
This is a very special phrase within the Twin Peaks series. We first hear it in episode 3, when Cooper
tells sherrif Truman about his dream, and describes Mike and BOB and he tells Harry that Mike's tattoo
read "Fire Walk with me". There lies a great power in this sentence, since it allows the lodge inhabitants
to enter the human world, through the person who spoke the words, or to leave this world. (Remember
the FWWM-movie, when Laura visits Harold to hand him over her secret diary after she has found out
some pages are torn out, when she says the words fwwm, Bob comes over her...) So the tattoo Mike
had gave him the possibility to enter/leave this world very often, because every time when someone
read the tattoo, the magic words were spoken, enabling Mike to enter or leave. This also explains the
note with the words "Fire Walk With Me" written on it that was found in the train car that was written
by Leland/BOB. When someone would find the note, he or she would read it and by doing this enabling
BOB to leave. For a more detailed story on this subject, please visit
TwinPeaks Studio
and read the "Black & White Lodge" page.
"Time" within the Black Lodge.
Time in the Lodge is way different from our time. While our time is linear, time in the lodge is not.
"Past" and "future" blend within the lodge. So things we see that happen in the lodge, could be
happening now, but could also have happened some time ago or can be happening in our future. This
is pretty difficult to understand for us, since we can not really comprehend the fact that it would be
possible for us to see things from all points in time, where or whenever they happened. It goes far
beyond our imagination, but seems very natural within the lodge. The fact of time being non-linear, is
shown for example when (in the FWWM-movie) Laura has her dream and she sees Annie Blackburne
lying next to her in her bed. Annie tells her "I've been with Dale and Laura. The good Dale is in the
lodge and he can't leave. Write it in your diary". So the things Annie's telling have already happened
in the lodge, but have not happened in our world, since Cooper will not enter the lodge before another
2 1/2 weeks. Also the Phillip Jeffries scene in FWWM indicates the strangeness of time within the
Lodge. He says "Who do you think that is?". This happened about a year before the murder of Laura,
so it would implie he knows something of Cooper's future (past?) association with BOB and/or the Black
Lodge. Also some of the conversations of Coop and the LMFAP indicate the non-linearity ot
Lodge-time. (for example, one of the many scenes that were cut from the movie, the LMFAP said "Is
it future? Or is it past? ... ")
The Lodge Inhabitants
First of all, the Little man from another place.
This person (if it's possible to speak of a real physical person) is probably the one that's most
frequently spotted in the Lodge. He's the dwarf with the red suite.
He is the embodiment of Mike's lost
arm. There are some references to this "connection" in the movie "Fire, Walk With Me". [the scene in
which Mike is following Leland and Laura with his car and we hear the "indian whooping sound", and
the dream Laura has, in which the LMFAP "introduces" himself to Cooper, saying "Do you know who
I am? I am the arm, and I sound like this" and he makes the "indian whooping sound"]. His "name"
probably comes from Cooper's dream in the second episode, in which he says "Where we're from, the
birds sing a pretty song, and there's always music in the air", which would indicate he's not from
"here", but from another place.
Like most inhabitants the LMFAP exists of a good-self and an evil-self.
He "tells" us this in the lodge-scene at the end of the final episode, when he's talking to Cooper and
says "when you see me again, it won't be me". His behaviour also contradicts sometimes. While in
some scenes he's almost helpfull to others (e.g. Cooper), in other scenes he shows he's just as evil as
BOB, like at the end of Fire Walk With Me, when Leland enters the Lodge after killing Laura. While he's
in the Lodge, he "splits" into two parts: himself and BOB. His body starts floating, and BOB wants to
take all garmonbozia from Leland, but Mike and the LMFAP (again the Mike - LMFAP connection)
demand their part of the garmonbozia from BOB, thus showing the LMFAP is as evil as BOB. It's hard
to tell when we see the good-self and when the shadow-self, since the actions of the two different
parts do not vary as much as with the other inhabitants. (his shadow-self is even worse than his good-
self).
BOB.
Bob probably is one half of an entity that lived in the lodge. He does not have a good-self, like most
other inhabitants. He once was "under the control" of the other lodge-inhabitants, but somehow found
a chance to "escape" their power.
He resided in Leland for a period of some 7 years, from the year of
Laura's 12th birthday (1982), untill the death of Leland (1989). He was responsible for Leland killing
Theresa Banks, Laura Palmer and Maddy Ferguson. He (officially) is first shown to the viewer in the
second episode, when Cooper has his dream (although someone in the Twin Peaks Newsgroup posted
some pictures from the pilot, showing a mirror in which a reflection of BOB can be seen ;=)). The fact
he escaped from the power of the other inhabitants is supported by the fact that other lodge inhabitants
are helping Cooper to find BOB (Coop gets help from Mike and the Giant). And as known he succeeded
in escaping a second time, through the dark-self of Coop.
This is possible because he owns Cooper's
soul. That's because Windom Earle took Cooper's soul in exchange of the safe exit of Annie Blackburne
from the lodge. Since Earle was not "allowed" to take Cooper's soul, BOB takes away Earle's soul, thus
also taking Cooper's soul. Bob is one of the most evil inhabitants of the lodge.
Mike
Mike is the other half of the entity from which BOB came. They once were partners and killed many
people together. But at a certain moment Mike turned himself against BOB and became his worst
enemy.
At the time when Mike and BOB were partners, Mike still had two arms. The arm he lost later
on, had a tattoo, saying "Fire walk with me". At the moment he turned himself against BOB he took
off the arm ("Oh, but then...I saw the face of God...and was purified. I took off the arm...but
remained... close to this vessel, inhabiting from time to time, for ONE, SINGLE, PURPOSE. TO STOP
HIM"). He also, like BOB, has his "own vehicle", in the form of Philip Michael Gerard, the shoe
salesman. It is typical that this is the only case where the lodge-inhabitant and the "vehicle" are
physically identical.
Mike has a connection with the LMFAP. Also, BOB was Mike's "familiar", which
means that BOB was a servant-spirit to Mike. BOB probably had to collect garmonbozia for Mike, but
somehow escaped from Mike, who was more powerfull, by increasing his own power. This could also
be a reason why Mike turned himself against BOB
The Giant.
The giant is only seen a few times. First of all when he gives Cooper his three clues, concerning the
solution of the murder of Laura Palmer. Then, when the case is about to be solved, he shows up again.
Finally we see him in the last episode when he is in the lodge. He visits the earth by inhabiting the
service waiter in the Great Northern Hotel. This is shown to us in the final episode, when the service
waiter (aka Señor Droolcup) appears in the black lodge, and then changes back to the giant, while
saying "One and the same".
He wants to make us believe he is a good spirit, while after all he is just
like Mike and BOB, and his intention (just like Mike) is to stop BOB.
Other Lodge inhabitants
There are some other inhabitants in the lodge, which were not originally there, but are brought there
by the original inhabitants. For example, Laura and Leland are in the lodge, and Cooper's good-self is
there also. Cooper is the only one who is not "completely" in the lodge. All other "new" inhabitants
(like Laura and Leland) consist of both a good and a bad self within the lodge. The good-self and the
shadow-self usually can be distinguised by the way both halfs behave themselves and the way of looking
The reason why Cooper's good-self is in the lodge, and the shadow-self is in the human world,
is because he was still alive when he entered the lodge. There has been some speculation about
whether or not Cooper entered the Black Lodge with imperfect courage. In my opinion he did not. I
believe that, if Cooper knew he did not have perfect courage, he wouldn't have entered the Black Lodge
in the first place. Also, I don't believe that the "meeting" of the good and the shadow-self caused
Cooper's soul to be annihilated. After all, the good-self and the shadow-self together are the soul, so
if the meeting would have caused the good-self to be annihilated, the shadow-self would also be
destroyed.
Another fact "proving" this theory is that Cooper allowed Windom Earle to take his soul in
exchange for the free passage of Annie. You really got to have a LOT of courage to do such a thing.
It also had the "side-effect" that BOB got in control of Cooper's soul, when he took Earle's. That's the
one and only reason why BOB could possess Cooper.
One exception of the remaining lodge inhabitants is Windom Earle. He is the only one of the "new"
inhabitants who does not seem to have a good-self.
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