Posted on 02/20/2019 9:52:46 PM PST by BlackVeil
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My best interpretation is, with their cooperation.
I have been watching this for well over a year.
I think not.
This is about his youthful military and romantic experiences, and the three friends who helped him in his formative years as a writer. Lewis came much later.
The friends were the inspiration for the Fellowship of the Ring, and Edith was the inspiration for Luthien Tinuviel.
The Screwtape Letters was dedicated to J.R.R. Tolkien.
The forward to That Hideous Strength cites The Silmarillion manuscript 30 years before it was published (posthumously).
That Hidepus Strength is one of my all-time favorites.
Mind-blowingly insightful about the nature of evil.
A shared love of Nordic Myth is what originally drew Lewis snd Tolkien together.
Tolkien was one of the leading authorities on Beowulf.
What I have read is that he, a philologist (and inspiration for CSL’s character, Elwin Ransom), created his own languages, and wanted to give them a home.
He further states in Tree and Leaf that he wanted to tell a story with a “eucatastrophe” (his coined word for a happy ending, like The Gospel).
Regardless, Asgard, Odin, Tyr, Thor, et cetera, certainly combine to form a mythology. Some days are named after them!
Yes. He preferred “feigned history” to allegory.
They shared a lot of ideas, from what I’ve read. They were in a writers group they called, “The Inklings”. Great minds think alike, as they say.
He wrote:
Tree and Leaf, an essay.
Leaf by Niggle, a story.
He loved tree life.
He discusses subcreation in Tree and Leaf, an essay.
Yes there is one thing I loved about LOTR and Silmarillion is that they seem so connected to nature. The movie didn’t reflect it very well.
I first read Nordic Myth (The Sons of Odin) in 3rd grade. In 5th grade, I read The Hobbit, followed by The Lord of the Rings.
That was in 1968. There was no internet. I knew nothing about the author but what he wrote in his books.
I knew without a doubt before I finished the trilogy that he was a Christian. His works were only superficially like Nordic Myth.
On a deeper level, they were very moral, and not truly pagan. They were implicitly monotheistic. (The Silmarillion, written first but published posthumously, was explicitly monotheistic.)
The Valar are created spirits, somewhat like angels (or Lewis’s Oyarsi). Iluvatar is clearly the uncreated Creator of all.
He also included several Types of Christ in the trilogy: Gandalf, Frodo, Aragorn - each exemplified an aspect: resurrected savior, selfless sacrifice, returning king.
I went in with low expectations to Peter Jackson’s worldly vision of TLotR, so I was not excessively disappointed, but it was typical secularized Hollywood fare.
I could write a short book of criticism on how he did not understand the philosophical or spiritual underpinnings of the story.
I know that Christopher Tolkien despised those three movies.
He was his father’s sounding board and eventual biographer and chronicler. Tolkien sent him chapters of the trilogy as they were finished, to read and give feedback in WWII, while he was in the RAF in North Africa. These are precious to him - no pun.
I will say that I adore the Howard Shore scores. As a professional chorister, I sang in the live presentation of the movies with full orchestra and chorus on the West coat, at San Jose’s Center for the Performing Arts. (The East coast version was at the Lincoln Center.)
We got standing ovations at every intermission and ending: six performances. Quite exhilarating.
I didn’t mean to say that Tolkien was a fan of pagan mythology, just mythology. The Silmarillion was monotheistic, with Eru representing God (God doesn’t really have a name). The Valar were the angels, and as stated were sometimes mistaken by men as gods. Morgoth was, who else? As much as Tolkien hated allegory, there is no mistaking this. Early on, Morgoth corrupted a number of the valar and so you have it. War over good and evil on Earth and so forth. Only the strains of good and evil were in more pure form than you find in other fantasies like Game of Thrones.
I took Music Literature from a white-male-hating Marxist in 2004.
She brought up W. H. Auden in class. After class, I mentioned that Auden had been a student of Tolkien, and that his favorable review helped get The Fellowship of the Ring published.
She responded by saying,”Tolkien was a racist, you know!” in a nasty tone, and stalked away without giving me any opportunity to respond.
I was incensed. Tolkien was, of course, no racist. It was a typical leftist lie.
With every movie, including LOTR, I make it my business to find faults. And having read the book makes it all the easier. I don’t like what Peter Jackson did to Denethor, and Aragorn’s character didn’t seem quite right. Some of the action scenes were ridiculous. Aragorn and Frodo on a 100 thousand ton slab of rock teetering back and forth, and Aragorn says “lean forward”. Or the signal fires going off one by one all the way from Gondor to Rohan when all they did in the book was send a rider. But actually, I was relieved that the movie wasn’t as Hollywoodized as I’d originally heard. There was a rumor early on that there was going to be a sex scene in the inn at Bree. What I really like about the movies is the music. The extended version of The Two Towers has the entire score playing at the end.
Yes. The books by George R. R. Martin are pagan. I started one, but did not finish it.
They call him the American Tolkien, but I think that is a superficial accessment.
George R. R. Martin’s world is more like Lower Middle Earth (and if you’ve ever read Bored of the Rings, no pun intended).
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