Re:Christopher Tolkien has died
by PaulDavisThe1st on Thursday January 16, 2020 @05:03PM
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> Tolkien was creating an alien world; Jackson gave us a familiar Sort Of Middle Ages Or Something.
This is pretty debatable c.f. endless scholarship on the connections between LOTR and (a) Tolkein's feelings about England post-WWI and (b) Tolkein's deep connections with actual existing mythology and legend. "Different world", perhaps, but "alien world" seems a bit much.
This is pretty debatable c.f. endless scholarship on the connections between LOTR and (a) Tolkein's feelings about England post-WWI and (b) Tolkein's deep connections with actual existing mythology and legend. "Different world", perhaps, but "alien world" seems a bit much.