Porque los dioses en Tolkien tienen sus propias personalidades, perfectamente diferenciadas de las del resto. Doing what no other immortal or mortal had been able to do for hundreds upon hundreds of years of strife? Un guiño de lo más entrañable que si ya me pareció encantador antes de leer este romance, ahora me lo parece infinitamente más. The elves come closest, but even so, I find it odd that there are no invocations in the darkest times - on the eve of battle or beside the dying - or thanksgiving at the happiest.

At length naught was left of them but a strange people wandering secretly in the wild, and other men knew not their homes nor the purpose of their journeys, and save in Imladris, in the house of Elrond, their ancestry was forgotten.The legends of the tribes of the elves and of their great migrations and of fantastic cities and of the wars against Melkor and his lieutenant Sauron fills this mythology with a richness that is for more than just for LOTR fans, this is good reading for any fantasy genre aficionado. The Folio Society presents a bewitching limited edition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

Pero creo que una de las cosas más interesantes en Tolkien es la forma en que, de alguna manera, humaniza a sus seres más poderosos. Christopher Tolkien collected his father’s notes and stories and put all this together for a 1977 publication, posthumous to JRR’s 1973 death. but there’s not even passing mention of temples, priests, prayers, rituals, sacraments, or holy texts.

Oh woe-begotten spirit, fall now into dark oblivion, and forget for a while the dreadful doom of life. And yes, I will likely have to reread The Simarillion sometime soon, because there is just no way I am going to be able to keep all of the different names etc. Whoever is into linguistics and language in general, or simply wants to know what the deeper meanings and ideological and magical backgrounds of LotR are, can dive deep into the immense detail of this aspect. This could be retitled "A Condensed History of Middle Earth" and it begins with the world's very creation. You learn here of a lot of the things only mentioned in LOTR: like Galadriel and Elrond’s origins, Earendil, Gil-Galad, Hurin, Turin, the fall of Gondolin, the great city of the Elves, the Silmarils, the most beautiful jewels ever created, the great love story of Beren and Luthien, the archetype for the fate of Aragorn and Arwen.

Tolkien’s The Silmarillion Note: paintings labelled “MECCG” were created for the Middle-earth Collectible Card Game; some of these do not portray literal scenes from Tolkien’s works.

Los hermanos Grimm cuentan el mito de Orfeo, protagonizado por una pareja de amantes prohibidos que se ponen el mundo por montera y desafían hasta la misma muerte por estar juntos. Solo que lo que este hombre creo y como lo hizo paso a paso, sin dejar nada al azar, nunca dejara de maravillarme y sorprenderme. His creativity, confined to his spare time, found its outlet in fantasy works, stories for children, poetry, illustration and invented languages and alphabets. En esto creo que también tiene mucho que ver el transfondo social, histórico y moral del propio Tolkien, del cual toda su obra es también deudora, bebiendo ampliamente de estas circunstancias. This was an interesting read, though I admit that it was one of the most difficult books that I read.