Hello Greyhavener and All other Austen fans,
I have little time today for the 'Net, but I have been running some ideas about Tolkien and Austen through my head. They are not a likely pairing, but, then, neither are Austen and Bronte, yet much can be learned from that pairing.
Austen's work exists in a clear and specific moral framework. (Self-centredness, selfishness, and self-gratification receive their comeuppance.)The heroines' journeys are moral journeys. Also, part of that framework includes an intimate understanding of social connections, of community relationships. Austen's community is more particularly a female community; Tolkien's, male.
A moral vision of the individual in the community is, I think, shared by both Tolkien and Austen.
Bethberry
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