Fiction in Middle Earth - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

davem · 04-14-2003, 02:47 AM

Annunfuiniel, still doesn't explain why something which Tolkien considers an essential aspect of our nature as created beings doesn't even get a mention. He wouldn't have to have related any of the tales of the subcreators, just mentioned that there were sub creators in ME. Of course, there is the danger of a kind of 'infinite regression - the sub created worlds of the sub creators would also have to contain subcreated worlds, ad infinitum

('It was a dark & stormy night.
We sat by the calcined wall
It was said to the Taleteller
"Tell us a tale" & the Tale ran thus:
"It was a dark & stormy night.....'
-David Jones, The Anathemata)
But I wonder why Tolkien never approached the area at all.

04-14-2003, 02:47 AM	#22
davem Illustrious Ulair Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: In the home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names,and impossible loyalties Posts: 4,240	Annunfuiniel, still doesn't explain why something which Tolkien considers an essential aspect of our nature as created beings doesn't even get a mention. He wouldn't have to have related any of the tales of the subcreators, just mentioned that there were sub creators in ME. Of course, there is the danger of a kind of 'infinite regression - the sub created worlds of the sub creators would also have to contain subcreated worlds, ad infinitum ('It was a dark & stormy night. We sat by the calcined wall It was said to the Taleteller "Tell us a tale" & the Tale ran thus: "It was a dark & stormy night.....' -David Jones, The Anathemata) But I wonder why Tolkien never approached the area at all. __________________ “Everything was an object. If you killed a dwarf you could use it as a weapon – it was no different to other large heavy objects."