LOTR and your Weltanschauung - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Fordim Hedgethistle · 04-12-2008, 08:24 PM

Thanks for excavating this thread Beebs.

I don't know about changing or effecting my view on life (or anything beyond) but given that I ended up writing my Master's thesis on Tolkien and that I'm now trying to retool my entire existence so that I can be a writer rather than an academic it would seem that having read the works and admired the writer has guided me in ways I never would have expected when I first encountered Middle-earth at the ripe age of 11.

Bêthberry · 04-13-2008, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Fordim Hedgethistle

Thanks for excavating this thread Beebs.

I did it because of Mister Underhill's great sense of vocabulary. . . .

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Also it was a chance to use the word Weltanschauung, which I never pass up. Try it. It's fun. Weltanschauung.

. . . . and because we have more German-speaking Downers now than in the past and I wanted to see what sense they would make of a word which has sounded 'round the world. Really, no one has taken up my alternate suggestion of Sturm und Drang, which I continue to think has Tolkienesque potential.

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Originally Posted by Fordim Hedgethistle

I don't know about changing or effecting my view on life (or anything beyond) but given that I ended up writing my Master's thesis on Tolkien and that I'm now trying to retool my entire existence so that I can be a writer rather than an academic it would seem that having read the works and admired the writer has guided me in ways I never would have expected when I first encountered Middle-earth at the ripe age of 11.

Now this raises an interesting question. Did you take up this ring-work, so to speak, voluntarily, or were you pre-destined to be the bearer of this guidance? Were you free to reject Tolkien's influence or not?

Fordim Hedgethistle · 04-13-2008, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Bêthberry

Now this raises an interesting question. Did you take up this ring-work, so to speak, voluntarily, or were you pre-destined to be the bearer of this guidance? Were you free to reject Tolkien's influence or not?

Tra-la-la-la-laleee to you.

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Fordim Hedgethistle Gibbering Gibbet Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Beyond cloud nine Posts: 1,844	Old bones Thanks for excavating this thread Beebs. I don't know about changing or effecting my view on life (or anything beyond) but given that I ended up writing my Master's thesis on Tolkien and that I'm now trying to retool my entire existence so that I can be a writer rather than an academic it would seem that having read the works and admired the writer has guided me in ways I never would have expected when I first encountered Middle-earth at the ripe age of 11. __________________ Scribbling scrabbling.