England's Mythology? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 07-07-2006, 02:47 PM

Okay, I'll bite. :P

Welcome to the Downs, yeomanrycavalry. I hope to see more of you around, and I hope you enjoy being Dead.

Did Tolkien really intend to do all you have claimed he failed at? One can only fail at a thing if one was reaching for the goal. As Tolkien said, "my crest has long since fallen". So by the time he wrote LotR, he was trying to write a good ripping yarn and succeeded in doing a whole lot more than that. You can't fault a man for the culture to which he belonged.

07-07-2006, 02:47 PM	#7
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Okay, I'll bite. :P Welcome to the Downs, yeomanrycavalry. I hope to see more of you around, and I hope you enjoy being Dead. Did Tolkien really intend to do all you have claimed he failed at? One can only fail at a thing if one was reaching for the goal. As Tolkien said, "my crest has long since fallen". So by the time he wrote LotR, he was trying to write a good ripping yarn and succeeded in doing a whole lot more than that. You can't fault a man for the culture to which he belonged.