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Iarwain · 04-06-2003, 08:11 PM

Wonderful connexions, very creative. However I'm about to do something oh, but so cruel. I hate to disappoint you, and even more to ruin the wonderful thoughts the creation of an allegorical Middle-Earth can produce, but there is no allegory. Tolkien's writing was about nothing more than itself. He was saying nothing more than that there was a war in the mythological world of arda, and giving a detail description of the heroism that took place therein. It's heartbreaking, i know, but true. Tolkien insisted on it himself, just read the forward of LotR.

Iarwain

04-06-2003, 08:11 PM	#4
Iarwain Pugnaciously Primordial Paradox Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Birnham Wood Posts: 808	Wonderful connexions, very creative. However I'm about to do something oh, but so cruel. I hate to disappoint you, and even more to ruin the wonderful thoughts the creation of an allegorical Middle-Earth can produce, but there is no allegory. Tolkien's writing was about nothing more than itself. He was saying nothing more than that there was a war in the mythological world of arda, and giving a detail description of the heroism that took place therein. It's heartbreaking, i know, but true. Tolkien insisted on it himself, just read the forward of LotR. Iarwain __________________ "And what are oaths but words we say to God?"