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Originally Posted by jallanite
So, yes, the same argument works for the “Quenta Silmariilion″ and the Divine Comedy
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Perhaps, but if we think of a "comedy" being the story with a happy ending, it's worth to look at how Tolkien ended the Silmarillion.
"Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the Marring be amended, Manwe and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos."
So, even though Morgoth is ousted, and a remnant survives, Tolkien seems to want us to see the story (
up to that point) as being fundamentally unresolved, the the resolution (even if future) being hidden and, to the inhabitants, uncertain (at least any hope rests firmly in the concept of
Estel).
That makes it seem to me (at least possibly) more as a "Tragedy" rather than "Comedy" (to use the medieval terms).