"the ring does in no way represent the bomb"

Dave Monroe davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 30 13:22:19 CST 2002


Now, I've no problem with statements like this ...

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> To write about one thing but intend another?
> Tolkien wouldn't do such a thing ...
>
> "most positively that the ring does in no way
> represent the bomb."
>
> Tolkien rejected the notion that anything in his
> Middle Earth represented anything else ...

... 'cos I'm not all too worried about intent ...

> and although it's evident that the book couldn't
> have come into existence without the two World Wars
> Tolkien experienced, in the first as a participant
> and in the second as the father of one ...

... again, traces ...

> or without his love of a rural England that
> was being swallowed by suburbs, it may not tell us
> that much about the books or his creation of them to
> know that. 

... but it may, and might well will, tell us something
nonetheless.  Among many, many other things ... 

> We might just as well think of the World Wars and
> industrial pollution as symbolic of the battle
> between the forces of good and evil in Middle Earth
> and the overrunning of the Shire. [...]"

... but here we perhaps impinge on Senor Borges's
territory, so ...

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