Good point about Illuvatar. Yes, that seems to be the theme that Tolkien built the whole concept around: the dual idea that evil would always cause suffering but Iluvatar would turn it to good again ultimately - or at least, weave it back into the music.
Until last year I'd only read Tolkien's own works, but about a year ago I went on a binge: took an online course on Tolkien that studied LOTR, read Shippey's wonderful book, and a biography of Tolkien, and his letters, and his daughter's book, and so on. Reading this book is my first return to the subject since then.
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Date: 2003-11-12 01:57 pm (UTC)Until last year I'd only read Tolkien's own works, but about a year ago I went on a binge: took an online course on Tolkien that studied LOTR, read Shippey's wonderful book, and a biography of Tolkien, and his letters, and his daughter's book, and so on. Reading this book is my first return to the subject since then.