If most of the tragic figures of Tolkien’s Silmarillion and the LotR are going wrong by forgetting that the goods they inherit and seek to preserve by their own hands are only a part, and not the whole, of the good that is to be sought, I raised the possibility that Samwise Gamgee gives us the …
Inspired by a re-read of Tolkien’s The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings, I’ve been riffing on an idea I got from @ayjay: namely, that one of the biggest problems to be worked out in these stories is the temptation to take a healthy appreciation for an inherited good and then seek …
So I’ve been re-reading The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings this summer and they have reminded me of some things that I have encountered in the last year or so. As I just finished book V of LotR, I was particularly reminded of something @ayjay wrote on “makers and making” …