The qualitative aspects of Room in ME

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This is about how people in Middle earth percieved room in different qualitative aspects. I will start by clarifying what I mean practicly with this rather pompous and dry phrase. It really is something obvious that you don't really think of, it just is, as so many other things in life that are passed by swiftly. When you are in for example a graveyard, you often get the feeling of respect and solemnity compared to when at home? You may feel that you are safe at home but in a strange environemnt you are worried or anything like that based on your surroundings, taht is when you feel a qualitative difference between different spaces.

One example for this can be sensed when the Hobbits come to Gondor, also Aragorn's reaction, he is not sued to large houses of stoen and feels uncomfortable. No fighting is allowed in Rath dinen, the house of the dead, and Mordor seems to be contaminated in such a way that you cannot enter without feeling dreary. My thought is that Tolkien has used this in a very effectful way. Look at the way the narrative is going, always at the hobbit's point of view which is not very surprising since it is supposed to be related with the Red book. Anyway, when Tolkien chose to make his narrative like this, he had the intention fo picturing the war of the Rign from a few seemingly unimportant persons point of view and I think this has been discussed a lot. What makes it interesting is the way it creates vivid and lively descriptions of rooms and halls that communicates a little of the astonishment that is felt when you suddenly enter something that si above your imagination. This is a bad post and a bad topic for discussing, sepecially with this poor presentation but if anyone has any thoughts on it, I'd love to hear them!

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