Hmmm, Bethberry, I must say, have you ever read the Old Forest chapter to a young child? Prior to that I barely tolerated Tom's merry antics, seeming especially bizarre when placed textuallt so close to Gildor's recent hyper-sober ministrations.
However when I came to that part while reading aloud to my daughter it fairly jumped off the page and came to life.
I was impressed yet again by something I had read who knows how many times being far deeper, creative and purely simple than I had hither to managed to discern.
The more I read JRRT the more his many-sided skills and mastery blow me away. And after the LotR he only got better [see HoME 10-12 and UT].
"My nick was created in defiance of the depiction of Goldberry--which to me is anything but charming, Rimbaud--and also in opposition to the idea that good exists within gated communities or closed systems. "
As for the gated communities thing, wow, truly worthy to be it's own thread.
But the implications of it being that Lothlorien for instance could not harbor good? Before launching into a very long reply I will await further clarification.
And Bethberry, have you read Michael Martinez's recent essay on the marriages of Bombadil-Goldberry and the Ent-Entwives?
It may improve your appreciation of Goldberry some, and then again maybe not...
As a married chap myself, I think MM unearthed yet another masterful but subtle treatment of a real world theme by JRRT. I'll did up he link if anyone interested does not know how to access his suite 101 essays [and I know he has a lot of detractors here, but this essay should have something for darn near everyone - married that is [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ].
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The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.
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