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Ettelewen
Rohan
May 11 2015, 5:29pm
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One passage stood out for me especially: "Out of the texts they studied and the tales they read, they forged new ways to convey old themes — sin and salvation, despair and hope, friendship and loss, fate and free will — in a time of war, environmental degradation, and social change." This resonated for me with a quote by Miranda Otto (from the LOTR DVD appendices?) to the effect that, we live in a cynical age and this is NOT a cynical story, in an attempt to explain the films' success.
I think this is why I keep coming back to the story, after innumerable re-readings and re-watchings.
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dormouse
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May 11 2015, 6:52pm
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It's that refusal to give up hope even at the worst of times - 'fighting the long defeat' - that always draws me back to Tolkien. I've never cared much for cynicism.
I was fascinated by the way the article sees the writing of Tolkien and friends as an alternative to the more familiar literature that grew out of the First World War
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Ethel Duath
Half-elven
May 11 2015, 8:47pm
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And so nice to see a positive spin on it all.
Thanks so much for posting this!
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Bombadil
Half-elven
May 12 2015, 1:36pm
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WAyCOOL that we get to read it
before the Bigger piece gets published...
References to Authors that Bomby had NOT read yet...
could keep "ol'COOT"... busy for months.
The other INKLINGzzz..are no where as Popular but
you have uncovered a WEALTH of days of searcing them
out in USED bookstores...
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Riven Delve
Tol Eressea
May 12 2015, 6:08pm
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Thanks for posting this, dormouse! //
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“Tollers,” Lewis said to Tolkien, “there is too little of what we really like in stories. I am afraid we shall have to try and write some ourselves.”
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elentari3018
Rohan
May 16 2015, 3:53am
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I couldn't have said it better than you did about why we always return
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to Middle-earth time and time again. :)
"By Elbereth and Luthien the fair, you shall have neither the Ring nor me!" ~Frodo
"And then Gandalf arose and bid all men rise, and they rose, and he said: 'Here is a last hail ere the feast endeth. Last but not least. For I name now those who shall not be forgotten and without whose valour nought else that was done would have availed; and I name before you all Frodo of the Shire and Samwise his servant. And the bards and the minstrels should give them new names: Bronwe athan Harthad and Harthad Uluithiad , Endurance beyond Hope and Hope Unquenchable.." ~Gandalf, The End of the Third Age , from The History of Middle Earth series
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elentari3018
Rohan
May 16 2015, 3:56am
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and i like this part most of the article:
Far more important, though, The Lord of the Rings and the vast mythology that surrounds and pervades it possess an intrinsic grandeur, breadth, and profound originality — it is simply the case that nothing like this has ever been done before — that make them, we believe, landmarks in the history of English literature.
Hear, hear! :D
"By Elbereth and Luthien the fair, you shall have neither the Ring nor me!" ~Frodo
"And then Gandalf arose and bid all men rise, and they rose, and he said: 'Here is a last hail ere the feast endeth. Last but not least. For I name now those who shall not be forgotten and without whose valour nought else that was done would have availed; and I name before you all Frodo of the Shire and Samwise his servant. And the bards and the minstrels should give them new names: Bronwe athan Harthad and Harthad Uluithiad , Endurance beyond Hope and Hope Unquenchable.." ~Gandalf, The End of the Third Age , from The History of Middle Earth series
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WOWie,dmouse!
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