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littlemanpoet · 09-11-2006, 09:02 AM

This is one instance of what I mean by Reality shining through LotR. Both doom and choice are there, written into the very weave of the tale. Many authors fail to account for one or the other, but our human experience is confronted by both. Both are real, and our attempts to deny one or the other sends us toward illusion or delusion (very often followed by disillusionment). Tolkien's tale satisfies because he acknowledges both and refuses to say the one trumps the other.

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09-11-2006, 09:02 AM	#11
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	This is one instance of what I mean by Reality shining through LotR. Both doom and choice are there, written into the very weave of the tale. Many authors fail to account for one or the other, but our human experience is confronted by both. Both are real, and our attempts to deny one or the other sends us toward illusion or delusion (very often followed by disillusionment). Tolkien's tale satisfies because he acknowledges both and refuses to say the one trumps the other.