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Essence of Darkness
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Evermore
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Well, I'm afraid I can't agree with any of those.
Except, in a different dimensions if you like, this one: Quote:
In the developed mythology, the comparison between Elves and Celts is very insubstantial. However in Lost Tales-era (HoME 1-3) mythology, which is fascinating, you have (inadvertently perhaps [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]) touched upon a principle found in the early writings that could compare Celts with the Eldar. In these writings, the Anglo-Saxon invasions of England displaced the previous Eldarin population -- Britain was Tol Eressea. So there you go. The earliest mythology, and you probably should read it if you want to look into this, might hold a bit of a paralell there (whether or not unintentional, and I don't think we could really say the same about the others. I can see a viable comparison neither of culture similarities, nor of what they did, in them, sorry. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] Very vague indeed... oh well. Quote:
The Rohirrim are the Anglo-Saxons, Auriel. There is certainly a true (and deliberate) paralell there. All this talk about LotR as a mythology for England, though. What few people seem to realise that it, that is the Lord of the Rings/Silmarillian and later era stage of the mythology development, is really not. The standalone-ness and complexity of the developed writings are their own story, of course with strong links back to the Lost Tales-era roots (HoME 1-3, guys [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]) but are not a mythology for England. That mythology is the Lost Tales. It is, as Tolkien says, an attempt at Quote:
Lord of the Rings has however nothing to do with Britain or England, or Europe, beyond similarities and visible basings-in-our-world in Middle-Earth. England does not exist. The mythology in fact reached a stage where it broke off from the original aim, that of creating a greater English mythology than what Beowulf could afford. That Tolkien written English mythology, the Books of Lost Tales, should be read to gain an understanding of this. (That doesn't mean that Middle-Earth things can't represent or be similar to English or British things, of course, but that Lord of the Rings is not the 'English mythology' that people seem to be misled that it is. Tolkien's writings were this once, but in the fully developed stage were not.) -------- [ September 19, 2003: Message edited by: Gwaihir the Windlord ] |
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