Archetypes in Faerie - Tolkien and Psychology - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 04-17-2002, 10:09 PM

I have not read the link you provided yet - it's late - but I do want to comment on the topic. I have subscribed to Mythlore magazine, published by the Mythopoeic Society, for a little more than fifteen years, during which time Jungian archetypes have been discussed from time to time. I readily agree that the archetypes are there in LotR. I think that they can be found in all fantasy works, and in much other literature as well. I would never go so far as to say that a fantasy is about its archetypes, but I think that it will inevitably, necessarily, employ them. How it employs them is part of what I find so interesting in fantasy works - at least in second and third readings. I will read the link when I have a chance.

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04-17-2002, 10:09 PM	#4
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	I have not read the link you provided yet - it's late - but I do want to comment on the topic. I have subscribed to Mythlore magazine, published by the Mythopoeic Society, for a little more than fifteen years, during which time Jungian archetypes have been discussed from time to time. I readily agree that the archetypes are there in LotR. I think that they can be found in all fantasy works, and in much other literature as well. I would never go so far as to say that a fantasy is about its archetypes, but I think that it will inevitably, necessarily, employ them. How it employs them is part of what I find so interesting in fantasy works - at least in second and third readings. I will read the link when I have a chance. [ April 18, 2002: Message edited by: littlemanpoet ]