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Unfortunately, Tolkien’s characters, structure, and morality are all too flat to suggest much, no matter how many faux-organic details he surrounds them with. Though Tom Bombadil remains as a strangely incoherent reminder of the moral and social complexity of the fantasy tradition upon which Tolkien draws, he did his best to scrub the rest clean, spending years of his life trying to fit Catholic philosophy more wholly into his Pagan adventure realm. Stealing everything possible from mythology and the, maybe sometimes a tiny bit boring, old, classics. Just take the mentioned Silmarillion, the immense details of the world, all the links to the cultural heritage, and the sheer scale and size, and, on top of that, close to everyone agrees that it´s a timeless, genre founding, ingenious masterpiece that will stand the test of not just time, but eternity.

Once communication has been reestablished and the forests resume their role in connecting communities, peace can once again attempt to thrive. What was appealing here was that contrast between the norm and the world of the Hobbits, the fact that really detailed environments happened to be so much smaller and you would only know that this was the case when a character such as Gandalf came into shot. Well, I hope you appreciated these thoughts about LOTR and that it will encourage you to reread this classic and be more environmentally-aware going forward. Perhaps in that sense, Galadriel does remain a heroic figure, if more passive than Eowyn, she retains her total independence and a modicum of power, being one of the last two Ring holders with Gandalf. He was a philologue, meaning that he studies in-depth the origins of the English language and chaired the Philology Department at Oxford for decades.

Personally, I felt that it was such a chore to read this book, and it derailed my entire reading plan for 2020. It certainly surpassed all the magical worlds that had come before it, and none created since that time have been able to surpass it in turn. It's like Ask Science, but all questions and answers are written with answers gleaned from the universe itself. I seem to have left behind parts of my heart and soul by the waterfalls of Rivendell, the ancient trees of Fangorn forest, the plains of Rohan and the marble walls of Minas Tirith.

Its realism, the characters and monsters, the storyline, the epic battles, and the quest motif are all drawn with incredible care by Tolkien in his chef-d'oeuvre.

And any student of the great Epics, like the Norse Eddas, the Bible, or the Shahnameh can see what Tolkien is trying to achieve with his worldbuilding: those books presented grand stories, but were also about depicting a vast world of philosophy, history, myth, geography, morality and culture. Regardless of which design you choose, they all have the famous Elvish saying engraved on the inside and outside. When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. Make the good guys dress in bright robes or silvery maile and the bad guys in black, spiky armor, and a lot of people will never notice that all the 'good guys' are White, upper class men, while all the 'bad guys' are 'brutish foreigners', and that both sides are killing each other and trying to rule their little corner of the world. Everything else I read, from DH Lawrence to Hemingway to Dickens to Shakespeare (and this also included Dracula and Dr.

However, I feel that I would be remiss if I didn't note that the impact this book has had in the world and on arts/literature even in the present year. Many members of my family read very little fiction – not that they don’t read, mind you, but as much as my obsession with YA has defined the last decade of my life, there is a lot of fascinating non-fiction, science books, and religious scripture out there to read – and yet every single one of my immediate family members has read The Lord of the Rings, as well as the Hobbit of course, and many of them have also read the rest of JRR Tolkien’s works, released postmortem. Nearly all antagonists have no grey areas, no moral dilemmas, no option to change towards the better, and that may be one of the biggest differences in contrast to modern fantasy, where these eclectic evildoers often have backstory, tragedy, depth, etc.As part of a buddy read, I have just completed the first book of the trilogy, and have given it 5 ⭐️. Sure it was respected and loved by those who knew it, but knowing it was not a foregone conclusion as it is today, and its audience was almost completely genre oriented. The beloved tradition of using others' ideas to create something new is big here, especially because Tolkien had the perfect background to milk everything from wherever he could find inspirations, from ancient to medieval and, at the time, modern works. Get hold of this mighty ring, strap your rucksack on your back, pack provisions and set off on your very own adventure to Middle-earth! I'm afraid this was not so much an actual review as simply a story about my experience with and passion for this book.