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Sarumian · 12-10-2009, 05:51 PM

Thanks for taking this into the thread and making clear what sort of inspirations led Tolkien through his "quest".

However there is one other point I'd like to mention in connection with World War II. The great tyrants of the 20th c. were some sort of social sorcerers who bewitched nations and ruled with the combined use of lust, excitement and terror. This was how Evil's face looked in Tolkien's day.

All this is in correspondence with what I see as his central idea - that there is something like magic in the world; that we need to put up with this fact and be ready to face consequences.

12-10-2009, 05:51 PM	#67
Sarumian Wight Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 129	Thanks for taking this into the thread and making clear what sort of inspirations led Tolkien through his "quest". However there is one other point I'd like to mention in connection with World War II. The great tyrants of the 20th c. were some sort of social sorcerers who bewitched nations and ruled with the combined use of lust, excitement and terror. This was how Evil's face looked in Tolkien's day. All this is in correspondence with what I see as his central idea - that there is something like magic in the world; that we need to put up with this fact and be ready to face consequences.