Aelfwine and Dirhaval - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Westerly Wizard · 10-12-2002, 11:04 PM

As a new comer to this particular site, although well versed in Tolkien and Tolkien discussion, I would like to add that it seems the most likely result of the Aelfwine stories is that it was abandoned by Tolkien when he began to make the stories more fictional than just entirely mythological in nature (he kept it a mythology, but not one that was to actually be a mythology for England in the same category with the Classical mythologies).; thus, there was no need for someone to complete the tasks of Aelfwine who found out the true existence of the legends .

10-12-2002, 11:04 PM	#11
Westerly Wizard Haunting Spirit Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 72	As a new comer to this particular site, although well versed in Tolkien and Tolkien discussion, I would like to add that it seems the most likely result of the Aelfwine stories is that it was abandoned by Tolkien when he began to make the stories more fictional than just entirely mythological in nature (he kept it a mythology, but not one that was to actually be a mythology for England in the same category with the Classical mythologies).; thus, there was no need for someone to complete the tasks of Aelfwine who found out the true existence of the legends . __________________ "He was sent by a mere prudent plan of the angelic Valar or governors; but Authority had taken up this plan and enlarged it, at the moment of its failure."