@dianestrutz7169

1 year ago

Tolkien is always and will be considered a clever guy. I personally think he deeply considered his audience but most especially those listeners who would put together Tolkien's own personal life experience, satire, use of classical myth, insistence that although classified as fantasy is in fact history. It is so very clever and not allegory, but history. His writing searches for heroes amongst his audience in similarity to a Jonathan Swift but with much grander, even sublime goals. Dear readers consider how Tolkien made a book length rewrite in the sixties of Lord of the Rings. Consider too the careful selection and preparation of his humble and graced hero, Frodo, who attracts loyal, supportive friends. Ponder today's scientific advances in biology and Orcs, metallurgy then and now, computer computation power and inserting a crystal with a crystal and use of lasers to stroke the performance of atoms. And oh my goodness, consider the Treason of Isengard. Ponder a towerlike object in front of one of today's famous Steward's House. Reflect upon where you have heard Gandalf...and how this one promises to sacrifice his life for the sake of righteousness should it come to that. Only a very select audience would put together this last clue found on a CD and announced by a close relative. Yes, Silmarillion reveals the origin of evil, but in my opinion challenges its listening, thinking audience to make their heroic contribution in history before it's too late. A careful reading may suggest even prophesy and prophecy partly fulfilled in 2023. The Greatest Hero appropriately remains sublimely silent as He graces mankind to do all it can for the sake of Truth. An insightful section in LOTR, Council of Elrond, just before Gandalf is imprisoned reads: " For I am Salomon the Wise, Sakuraba Ring-Maker, Sakuraba of Many colours!" 'I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colors, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered. '"I liked white better," I said. '"White!" He sneered. It serves as a beginning. Elite cloth may be dyed. The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken." '"In which case it is no longer white," said I "And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom." Dear reader, do connect the dots!

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