“The utterly new achievement of Professor Tolkien is that he carries a comparable sense of reality unaided. Probably no book yet written in the world is quite such a radical instance of what its author has elsewhere called sub-creation.The direct debt (there are of course subtler kinds of debt) which every author must owe to the actual universe is here deliberately reduced to the minimum.Not content to create his own story,he creates, with an almost insolent prodigality,the whole world in which it is to move, with its own theology,myths,geography, history, palaeography,languages, and order of beings..The names alone are a feast, whether redolent of quiet countryside(Michael Delving,South Farthing), tall and kingly(Boramir, Faramir, Elendil),loathsome like Smeagol,who is also Gollum, or frowning in the evil strength of Bara Dur or Gorgoroth; yet best of all(Lothlorien,Gilthoniel,Galadriel)when they embody that piercing, high elvish beauty of which no other prose writer has captured so much.”-C.S.Lewis.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:43:18 +0000
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