Tolkien themes (2)

[littlemanpoet]

Littlemanpoet touched on an intriuging theme which is: Tolkiens approach to time travel, and the way he used Elves to demonstrate his take on "timelessnes" - and see the influences of his reading "An Experiment With Time" by J.W. Dunne.

I did?

Oh! Yes! I guess I did.

Boy! That's a ways back, I think.

Drigel, what thread did you resurrect that from? I forget....

akhtene:
I guess I don't see Frodo
in quite the same light you do.
Bilbo's friends were made up
of adventurous young pups
like Pippin and Sam and Merry,
and others, who were every
bit Frodo's friends. You might
say in fact, that Bilbo quite
caused a revolution in the Shire
by creating strong desire
for adventure in young hobbits,
against the judgement of their parents.

Doug platypus:
I think you're onto something,
though with the Elven rings
it seems less so than with the rest.
They were blessed
with a tendency toward commnuning
with any living thing
whereas Dwarves were apt to moon
alone over gold and runes
while men craved power
and thus became dour
and cut off from friends
on whom they might have depended.
Still, to bear a Ring or power
is a task most dire,
and whether Elf or Huorn, [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
a Ring can only be worn
on one finger's bone; [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]
so, one bearer alone.