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Rimbaud · 10-02-2002, 02:32 PM

Littlemanpoet - Frodo and Sam's relationship is based almost exclusively (at first) on notions of class, I cannot see any way in which this is not apparent.

I am not willing to enter into heated debate on the origins of class - the nomenclature itself has now been questioned, which gives rise to a host of definition-based arguments - but it is important to contextualise; Tolkien was writing in the mid and post War periods of class dissolution and the issue would have been at the forefront of educated thinking.

10-02-2002, 02:32 PM	#17
Rimbaud The Perilous Poet Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Heart of the matter Posts: 1,062	Littlemanpoet - Frodo and Sam's relationship is based almost exclusively (at first) on notions of class, I cannot see any way in which this is not apparent. I am not willing to enter into heated debate on the origins of class - the nomenclature itself has now been questioned, which gives rise to a host of definition-based arguments - but it is important to contextualise; Tolkien was writing in the mid and post War periods of class dissolution and the issue would have been at the forefront of educated thinking. __________________ And all the rest is literature