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Curious
Half-elven
Jul 12 2009, 1:12pm
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Maybe you are right. For me, though, LotR defines eucatastrophe, and
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by that measure, it is much more than just a plot twist -- it is the world upended, from the worst of the worst to the best of the best. That kind of eucatastrophe is rare, but it is shared by LotR and the Gospels.
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The Shire
Jul 25 2009, 9:40pm
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This is a very interesting thread. I am reminded that with regard to happy endings, Tolkien was under no delusion that fairy stories actually had happy endings. As he noted in his essay on them, the verbal ending: “they lived happily ever after” is an artificial device. It does not deceive anybody. End phrases of this kind are to be compared to the margins and frames of pictures, and are no more to be thought of as the real end of any particular fragment of the seamless Web of Story than the casement of the Outer World
This is slightly summarised from around pages 160 – 161 of my copy of “The Monster and the Critics”
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