Sitting down to read "The Arch and the Keystone" by Verlyn Flieger. Available in the newest issue of @mythlore! (I have heard good things!) Available here: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol38/iss1/3/ … #Tolkien #OpenAccess
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On the contrast of OFS with B:CM, "It is the combination of eucatastrophe and Happy Ending that characterizes the fairy-story. A pretty big contrast to the Beowulfian acceptance of death as the end."--she has some great observations to support this!
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Flieger on finding contradictions about the religiosity of his writing in Tolkien's letters: "Either he is a hypocrite, which I do not believe, or he is more comfortable with paradox than some of his readers, who would rather find him on one side or the other."
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Flieger always has that wry wit that you love, delivered at the perfect moment! "nobody ever said Tolkien was an easy read. (I certainly never did.)"
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About "Leaf by Niggle" and "Smith of Wooten Major": "Niggle and Smith are projections, as well as competing aspects of Tolkien."
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On the genre of LOTR: "As it set out upon its adventure in the 20th century the fairy godmothers at its birth christened it fantasy, and it has since been called a myth, a fairy tale, a great book, and juvenile trash...
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...I have read enough to venture the opinion that Tolkien studies, while rich in many departments, is surprisingly poor in one. It is poor in understanding of [LOTR] as tragedy"
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Here it is, the clincher: "Frodo and Sam, at the Cracks of Doom and in the aftermath, embody between them the final tension and opposition that characterizes Tolkien’s masterwork." (I'm not giving this one away! Read the essay!)
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Wow, what a masterclass on writing a conclusion. READ THE ESSAY!
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