Deep Past of Middle Earth - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lyta_Underhill · 09-02-2003, 11:46 PM

Welcome to the Downs, DifficultQueries! Great name! If you read the Silmarillion, you will find a history of Ea from the beginning, before thought became form when Eru Iluvatar spoke the world into being, and thus there is no room for Middle Earth to be after anything; rather I believe it is a distant past or alternative reality.

There are plenty of books set in a technologically primitive society that has arisen after a nuclear holocaust; Riddley Walker (by Russell Hoban) is one of my favorite of these and has been compared to both Tolkien and also to Huck Finn...I wouldn't quite go there, but Huck Finn is closer!

I hope this helps! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Cheers,
Lyta

09-02-2003, 11:46 PM	#2
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 841	Welcome to the Downs, DifficultQueries! Great name! If you read the Silmarillion, you will find a history of Ea from the beginning, before thought became form when Eru Iluvatar spoke the world into being, and thus there is no room for Middle Earth to be after anything; rather I believe it is a distant past or alternative reality. There are plenty of books set in a technologically primitive society that has arisen after a nuclear holocaust; Riddley Walker (by Russell Hoban) is one of my favorite of these and has been compared to both Tolkien and also to Huck Finn...I wouldn't quite go there, but Huck Finn is closer! I hope this helps! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Cheers, Lyta __________________ “…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”