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Lalwendë · 09-01-2009, 02:33 PM

Julian or Norwich did have the advantage of living the life of an Anchorite though, holed up in her cell and separated from the hurly burly of the life she'd have otherwise have had, even as a nun.

The fantasy that a modern writer produces is a vision filtered thorugh many things, through past experience, through encounters with art and music, through dreams, etc. None of it is 'true' in any way, but that's the joy of it - Tolkien didn't create a world which was anything like the real world as it had ever been, but one which emerged through his encounters with other Artists' encounters, and those who came before them, and so on and on.

09-01-2009, 02:33 PM	#8
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	Julian or Norwich did have the advantage of living the life of an Anchorite though, holed up in her cell and separated from the hurly burly of the life she'd have otherwise have had, even as a nun. The fantasy that a modern writer produces is a vision filtered thorugh many things, through past experience, through encounters with art and music, through dreams, etc. None of it is 'true' in any way, but that's the joy of it - Tolkien didn't create a world which was anything like the real world as it had ever been, but one which emerged through his encounters with other Artists' encounters, and those who came before them, and so on and on. __________________ Gordon's alive!