Aelfwine
Ossiriand
Oct 6 2022, 10:22pm
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Re: "The spirit of Tolkien"
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None of what I said, BTW, is either new, or original to me. Tolkien's project of reconciling Northern fatalism ("The Northern Spirit", as it used to be called) with Christian Providence* was long well-known and recognized as central to his purposes. Only since the Scholars that Be decided relatively recently that we can have no more of that has the focus shifted onto far more mundane and anodyne themes.
(* Some will instantly object that there are no Christians in Tolkien's Middle-earth. Well, there aren't any Vikings, either, but their respective world-views nonetheless inspired and deeply inform Tolkien's legendarium.)
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Carl F. Hostetter
(This post was edited by Aelfwine on Oct 6 2022, 10:24pm)
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