Fiction in Middle Earth - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

***Mister Underhill*** · 04-10-2003, 07:57 PM

I've often meant to start a thread to discuss the self-consciousness with which some of the characters in LotR perceive that their adventures will someday be told and retold as stories, but I've never gotten around to digging up the references.

Some of the conversations that Sam and Frodo have about such matters imply that there are plenty of stories and epic poems in ME. Sam certainly seems to have been a fan of adventure tales.

And anyway, who's to say that there isn't a great subcreative work in ME? Penned by an unremarkable Hobbit, no doubt, a teacher perhaps, a queer fellow with a penchant for mumbling to himself in outlandish tongues and drawing maps of places that never were.

04-10-2003, 07:57 PM	#10
*Mister Underhill* Dread Horseman Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Behind you! Posts: 2,744	I've often meant to start a thread to discuss the self-consciousness with which some of the characters in LotR perceive that their adventures will someday be told and retold as stories, but I've never gotten around to digging up the references. Some of the conversations that Sam and Frodo have about such matters imply that there are plenty of stories and epic poems in ME. Sam certainly seems to have been a fan of adventure tales. And anyway, who's to say that there isn't a great subcreative work in ME? Penned by an unremarkable Hobbit, no doubt, a teacher perhaps, a queer fellow with a penchant for mumbling to himself in outlandish tongues and drawing maps of places that never were.