LOTR and your Weltanschauung - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

**lindil** · 06-27-2001, 05:50 PM

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/nenya.jpg" align=absmiddle> Tolkien and world-view

In short for me M-E formed wy world-view for many years.
I grew up in a complacent suburb of ugly houses surrounded by oakforests and ever increasing sprawl. I sensed deeply that the society around me was a 'finger of mordor '. and that w/ out resisitance and a determination to understand what life was about , society would sweep me away.

The combination of LotR/Silm/UT and spending more of my senior year [ in HS] in the forest than at school [literally] much of it reading Tolkien and Walden had a radical effect on me. I wanted to research immortaility and being as elf-like as possible. It encouraged me even at the time to read the Bible and the apocrypha [esp. the Shepherd of Hermas] as I knew these were sources/ideas that JRRT found key. It took me another 15 years to come full circle to Orthodox Christianity and editing a new Silmarillion - I kind of see that as workpaying my debt to M-E.

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06-27-2001, 05:50 PM	#10
lindil Seeker of the Straight Path Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: a hidden fastness in Big Valley nor cal Posts: 1,680	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Seeker of the Straight Path Posts: 663</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/nenya.jpg" align=absmiddle> Tolkien and world-view In short for me M-E formed wy world-view for many years. I grew up in a complacent suburb of ugly houses surrounded by oakforests and ever increasing sprawl. I sensed deeply that the society around me was a 'finger of mordor '. and that w/ out resisitance and a determination to understand what life was about , society would sweep me away. The combination of LotR/Silm/UT and spending more of my senior year [ in HS] in the forest than at school [literally] much of it reading Tolkien and Walden had a radical effect on me. I wanted to research immortaility and being as elf-like as possible. It encouraged me even at the time to read the Bible and the apocrypha [esp. the Shepherd of Hermas] as I knew these were sources/ideas that JRRT found key. It took me another 15 years to come full circle to Orthodox Christianity and editing a new Silmarillion - I kind of see that as workpaying my debt to M-E. </p> __________________ 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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