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Bêthberry · 08-12-2009, 10:14 AM

Gordis's point is very interesting and so are his quotations. I shall mull these over in another perusal of the book.

What it might mean is that hidden within us all, the best as well as the worst, is a naked and lustful desire for power, control, personal authority and that even in a person such as Frodo, broken by the physical hardships of the journey and the deprivation of light, joy and living being, he succumbs to that basic kernel of flawed Middle earth. You have to wonder what aspects of human nature Tolkien saw in the Somme.

Yet Frodo brought the Ring to the point where conditions would allow its destruction. Those conditions are not predicated upon any man's ability but upon a eucatastrophe.

08-12-2009, 10:14 AM	#16
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 5,989	Gordis's point is very interesting and so are his quotations. I shall mull these over in another perusal of the book. What it might mean is that hidden within us all, the best as well as the worst, is a naked and lustful desire for power, control, personal authority and that even in a person such as Frodo, broken by the physical hardships of the journey and the deprivation of light, joy and living being, he succumbs to that basic kernel of flawed Middle earth. You have to wonder what aspects of human nature Tolkien saw in the Somme. Yet Frodo brought the Ring to the point where conditions would allow its destruction. Those conditions are not predicated upon any man's ability but upon a eucatastrophe. __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.