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radagastly · 01-29-2006, 01:13 AM

I tend to think that it is very likely that we are all trying to read more into Tolkien's choice of colors than is actually there. I think the colors were chosen spontaneously. That is, their colors were meant to be strictly a "psychological" impact on the reader. "White" has it's impact on the reader as pure and unstained, PERFECT. "Grey" is inherently undefined, transitional, mobile yet natural, unassuming. "Blue" is mysterious, ("why is the sky blue, Daddy?) infinite like the sky, angelic. "Brown" implies Nature, forests and fields, trees and soil. I guess I don't think the Valar chose the colors, Tolkien did, as he wrote.

01-29-2006, 01:13 AM	#12
radagastly Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Washington, D. C., USA Posts: 299	I tend to think that it is very likely that we are all trying to read more into Tolkien's choice of colors than is actually there. I think the colors were chosen spontaneously. That is, their colors were meant to be strictly a "psychological" impact on the reader. "White" has it's impact on the reader as pure and unstained, PERFECT. "Grey" is inherently undefined, transitional, mobile yet natural, unassuming. "Blue" is mysterious, ("why is the sky blue, Daddy?) infinite like the sky, angelic. "Brown" implies Nature, forests and fields, trees and soil. I guess I don't think the Valar chose the colors, Tolkien did, as he wrote. __________________ But all the while I sit and think of times there were before, I listen for returning feet and voices at the door.