Tolkien's theme - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Gwaihir the Windlord · 07-08-2003, 03:43 AM

Well, I wouldn't go into it particularly like that. It is a massive story. It encompasses everything, and so there are so many themes that you have to follow them all. It is a fantastic fabricated universe, made as a background to our own for the purposes of fascination. Not really just a mytho for Britain, but for the World, in a sort of British way I suppose.

Estelyn, there is a main theme. Illuvitar seems to be the beginning and the end of things, that covers everything. It is eevrything. Then there are the two lower tiers of the Valar and the great deeds of the world, and finally, the deeds in detail, the individuals.

07-08-2003, 03:43 AM	#22
Gwaihir the Windlord Essence of Darkness Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Evermore Posts: 1,420	Well, I wouldn't go into it particularly like that. It is a massive story. It encompasses everything, and so there are so many themes that you have to follow them all. It is a fantastic fabricated universe, made as a background to our own for the purposes of fascination. Not really just a mytho for Britain, but for the World, in a sort of British way I suppose. Estelyn, there is a main theme. Illuvitar seems to be the beginning and the end of things, that covers everything. It is eevrything. Then there are the two lower tiers of the Valar and the great deeds of the world, and finally, the deeds in detail, the individuals.