Descent into Hell!!! Rarrr!...Well, sort of... - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lush · 04-10-2005, 03:00 AM

I love it how this thread just died like a 90-year old grandma....Anyway...

I guess I originally started this in order to make some sense of Tolkien's ideas concerning hell. People had brought up the Void, and from my reading of the books, I always imagined to be a sort of physical place. Saruman's death may make it seem as though he was simply destroyed, but I don't think that really jives with the rest of the books. Rather it would seem to me that in painting Saruman's death the way he did, Tolkien was explaining to us how miserable it is to be separated from the West, where he originally belonged.

Re-reading over this thread now, I am beginning to think that hell in Middle Earth is first and foremost separation from the divine.

04-10-2005, 03:00 AM	#26
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,770	I love it how this thread just died like a 90-year old grandma....Anyway... I guess I originally started this in order to make some sense of Tolkien's ideas concerning hell. People had brought up the Void, and from my reading of the books, I always imagined to be a sort of physical place. Saruman's death may make it seem as though he was simply destroyed, but I don't think that really jives with the rest of the books. Rather it would seem to me that in painting Saruman's death the way he did, Tolkien was explaining to us how miserable it is to be separated from the West, where he originally belonged. Re-reading over this thread now, I am beginning to think that hell in Middle Earth is first and foremost separation from the divine. __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~