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In Reply to: It's a fictional world; they elves weren't trying to conquer it. posted by Audiophilander on January 08, 2004 at 17:00:50:
Maybe there is a lot more to his works than perceived. Afterall, Henry Ford, Chuck Lindbergh, and King Eddie . . .
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Well, English is a Germanic language. Tolkien was a highly respected
philologist and held the Rawlinsonian chair of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford
until his death. The ancient Germanic languages are very similar: if
you can read Anglo-Saxon, you can get by in Old High German, Old
Saxon, Old Frisian, Old Norse, etc. He used the literature and glosses
of the old Germanic for many proper names in LOTR; for example, the
dwarf names are mostly from the Old Norse poetic Edda; "warg" is Old
Norse for "wolf, "wetwang" is Old Norse for "swamp". This hardly makes
him Wagnerian. He scoffed at the notion that the ring of Sauron was
the same as the Nibelungen ring, except that they were both "round".
The racism slur is preposterous and offensive and tedious worst kind
of PC thinking. Tolkien was a original and creative writer: he was
influenced by many ancient Germanic sources, but not ruled by them.
Regards,J.R.
BTW, the elven names and language are Uralic (Finnish in this case)
in form.
..."The Wit & Wisdom of George W. Bush" the autobiographical pamphlet here, are we? No siree! We're talkin' about the highly regarded works of JRR Tolkien, one of the foremost 20th Century literary authors and a man who made a point of not wearing his politics, prejudices or religious views on his sleeve! Tolkien reputedly said as much himself in denying the symbolic nature of his Rings Trilogy and it would be nice if folks would have the decency to respect the late author's word.BTW, Hank Ford, Lindy and would be King Eddie are far from literary giants even though the former two are well respected for their personal successes. The fact that all of them made poor philosophical/political judgments doesn't necessarily reflect poorly on their personal achievements, does it?
AuPh
It does if they are poisonning the air around with faschistoid " Gedankengut "
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