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The Squatter of Amon Rûdh · 02-05-2002, 10:28 AM

I particularly liked Gandalf's description of his part in the quest for Erebor, but there wasn't a single story that I didn't enjoy, yet mourn for its incompleteness. I found the story of Anarion and Erendis interesting as it contains a woman who isn't necessarily "a patient Griselda of a wife with a heart of gold"; the tale of the disaster at the Gladden Fields paints a much more sympathetic portrait of Isildur than that in the published work and the section on the Istari is very informative.

Does it strike anyone else as ironic that, presumably unplanned by him, a lot of Tolkien's mythology has come to light more in tantalising fragments than complete work? This is, after all, how our picture of many world mythological systems has been pieced together.

02-05-2002, 10:28 AM	#4
The Squatter of Amon Rûdh Spectre of Decay Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Bar-en-Danwedh Posts: 2,178	I particularly liked Gandalf's description of his part in the quest for Erebor, but there wasn't a single story that I didn't enjoy, yet mourn for its incompleteness. I found the story of Anarion and Erendis interesting as it contains a woman who isn't necessarily "a patient Griselda of a wife with a heart of gold"; the tale of the disaster at the Gladden Fields paints a much more sympathetic portrait of Isildur than that in the published work and the section on the Istari is very informative. Does it strike anyone else as ironic that, presumably unplanned by him, a lot of Tolkien's mythology has come to light more in tantalising fragments than complete work? This is, after all, how our picture of many world mythological systems has been pieced together. __________________ Man kenuva métim' andúne?