'Sleeps a Song in Things Abounding', Julian Eilmann

[mark12_30]

Originally Posted by Faramir Jones

The author ends by saying that ‘Poetically gifted individuals’ like Frodo ‘enchanted by linguistic magic, can hence achieve for a brief moment an impression of the world in a romanticized condition'. (Ibid.)

Reminds me of sehnsucht, that quality of barely-expressible longing that is present in so much of Tolkien's works. It is wrapped in song. Sometimes it is only expressible in song.

Have you read -- I think it's in the Sil-- that the music of rivers (by Ulmo?) brings a longing to the heart of men? Elsewhere it says that the horns of Ulmo awaken the sea-longing. Makes sense to me.

How often was Frodo "peirced" by music!

[Faramir Jones]

Mark, you asked me this:

Originally Posted by mark12_30

Have you read -- I think it's in the Sil-- that the music of rivers (by Ulmo?) brings a longing to the heart of men? Elsewhere it says that the horns of Ulmo awaken the sea-longing. Makes sense to me.

How often was Frodo "pierced" by music!

I have read that piece, which is in the Valaquenta part of The Silmarillion:

At times he [Ulmo] will come unseen to the shores of Middle-earth, or pass far inland up firths of the sea, and there make music upon his great horns, the Ulumuri, that are wrought of white shell; and those to whom that music comes hear it ever in their hearts, and longing for the sea never leaves them again. But mostly Ulmo speaks to those who dwell in Middle-earth with voices that are heard only as the music of water. For all seas, lakes, rivers, fountains and springs are in his government; so that the Elves say that the spirit of Ulmo runs in all the veins of the world. (The Silmarillion, p. 29)

Lovely!

[Estelyn Telcontar]

For those who are interested in this chapter and would like to hear more about the connection between Tolkien and romanticism, the German Tolkien Seminar (April 23 - 25 2010) will concentrate on this topic. Julian Eilmann will be one of the speakers.

[shadowfax]

Originally Posted by Estelyn Telcontar

For those who are interested in this chapter and would like to hear more about the connection between Tolkien and romanticism, the German Tolkien Seminar (April 23 - 25 2010) will concentrate on this topic. Julian Eilmann will be one of the speakers.

Also to be attended by Patrick Curry BTW, so it looks as if there will be an impressive lineup of top-notch speakers.