![]() It seemed to Frodo then that he heard, quite plainly but far off, voices out of the past: Tolkien goes out of his way to make a very particular point by repeating it – and I give here a slightly longer version depicting a scene where Frodo and Sam are confronting Gollum in Mordor: However, most readers don’t realise J.R.R. It is quite obvious this would be one of the more debatable statements in this work – the question of life and death is an essential one which is being answered very differently all over the world. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. ![]() Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. In this first blog post I would like to draw attention to one of the most often quoted passages from The Lord of the Rings, usually to ‘prove’ the book is not all about violence and war (which it is not, in my opinion but that is for another post.) Some issues never go out of fashion, so to speak. Tolkien, the author, the academic and the person on issues relevant to this very day. I will be looking into some of those topics and would like to draw attention to some of the statements made by J.R.R. As with any writer of his time and age, particularly in comparison to the changes in values the world has witnessed coming into the 21st century – and not all of them to the better, I’d say – there is much room for debate. In recent years I have read many criticisms of Tolkien’s works, some of them more elegant and convincing than others.
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