Rereading Tolkien - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Bêthberry · 07-19-2002, 11:23 AM

Hello Greyhavener and All other Austen fans,

I have little time today for the 'Net, but I have been running some ideas about Tolkien and Austen through my head. They are not a likely pairing, but, then, neither are Austen and Bronte, yet much can be learned from that pairing.

Austen's work exists in a clear and specific moral framework. (Self-centredness, selfishness, and self-gratification receive their comeuppance.)The heroines' journeys are moral journeys. Also, part of that framework includes an intimate understanding of social connections, of community relationships. Austen's community is more particularly a female community; Tolkien's, male.

A moral vision of the individual in the community is, I think, shared by both Tolkien and Austen.

Bethberry

07-19-2002, 11:23 AM	#23
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6,003	Hello Greyhavener and All other Austen fans, I have little time today for the 'Net, but I have been running some ideas about Tolkien and Austen through my head. They are not a likely pairing, but, then, neither are Austen and Bronte, yet much can be learned from that pairing. Austen's work exists in a clear and specific moral framework. (Self-centredness, selfishness, and self-gratification receive their comeuppance.)The heroines' journeys are moral journeys. Also, part of that framework includes an intimate understanding of social connections, of community relationships. Austen's community is more particularly a female community; Tolkien's, male. A moral vision of the individual in the community is, I think, shared by both Tolkien and Austen. Bethberry __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.