ElendilTheShort
Gondor
Oct 21 2013, 6:57am
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Tolkiens good versus evil is not simple
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On the contrary his work has a solid and deep grounding on why these two states of being exist, exploring creation, sub creation, falls or failure of morality and the ensuing conflict. His story telling contains subtly in it that is in stark contrast to the obvious and clumsy work of other writers. All the critics see is simple because their own view is simple, not because Tolkiens writing is simple. They need the opposite of subtle and nuanced writing to realise that the good/evil state is not simply black and white in Ea.
Anyone is subject to criticism and Tolkiens works have been subject to negative criticism on a literary level that I will never understand, but these are largely separate to the criticisms of a simplified good/evil conflict state.
The repetitive nature of such accusations just makes me think at least some if not many such professional critics are just repeating what they have heard said before, it is nothing new, nothing of their own thought, that is why they fail miserably to make any sort of successful argument to support their claims on even the most basic of levels. They do not understand the subject matter or the true nature of Tolkiens work.
Such questions as would any of them even know Tolkiens thoughts on absolute evil, the state of Denethors mind and how he viewed his Stewardship, why did Eru let Aule's dwarves live and give them their own wills, why were the orcs and so many evil things easily bent to the will of a superior evil being.
They can all go suck eggses with Smeagol's grandmother.
(This post was edited by ElendilTheShort on Oct 21 2013, 7:01am)
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