Critical Essays on Tolkien - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

**lindil** · 04-10-2003, 09:05 PM

Thanks Esty, I dipped into the essay and loved it, I hope to give it a more careful reading and respond to your psych thread { and Hey! I would have posted on it if I had seen it. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] } but I do see what you mean.

I think the application of various psychologies to the Legendarium gets far to hard a rap.

If it is 'truth', then of course any other method of discerning truth through Archetypal patterns will not only show resembnlances but also illuminate from a different angle.

I would like to see him tackle the Silm! talk about archetypes!

But his line about Gollum being Frodo's shadow is patently obvious, not that JRRT in any way designed it as such...

I will save the rest for Esty's thread.

04-10-2003, 09:05 PM	#1
lindil Seeker of the Straight Path Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: a hidden fastness in Big Valley nor cal Posts: 1,680	Thanks Esty, I dipped into the essay and loved it, I hope to give it a more careful reading and respond to your psych thread { and Hey! I would have posted on it if I had seen it. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] } but I do see what you mean. I think the application of various psychologies to the Legendarium gets far to hard a rap. If it is 'truth', then of course any other method of discerning truth through Archetypal patterns will not only show resembnlances but also illuminate from a different angle. I would like to see him tackle the Silm! talk about archetypes! But his line about Gollum being Frodo's shadow is patently obvious, not that JRRT in any way designed it as such... I will save the rest for Esty's thread. __________________ The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.