tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post6737162231573599912..comments2024-03-28T08:27:51.420-04:00Comments on Tellers of Weird Tales: Tolkien and Weird Tales-Part 2Terence E. Hanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08268641371264950572noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post-86860774217561430152015-11-21T22:30:58.098-05:002015-11-21T22:30:58.098-05:00Jerry,
I'm a little late in replying, but I w...Jerry,<br /><br />I'm a little late in replying, but I want to say thanks for the comment. I know that Tolkein disliked allegory, but I can't help but see allegory in the Lord of the Rings. I remember thinking when the movies came out, "This time we have knocked down their towers," i.e., the towers put up by the evil forces in this world. As for the geography of Middle Earth, I'll accept northwest as being west and southeast as being east, but I won't quibble with you, either.<br /><br />Thanks again.<br /><br />THTerence E. Hanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08268641371264950572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post-30239284751603905072013-08-21T05:11:58.407-04:002013-08-21T05:11:58.407-04:00Tolkien famously disliked allegory and specificall...Tolkien famously disliked allegory and specifically and vigorously denied any such connection between the narrative and plot of the Lord of the Rings and any 20th century events.<br />However threats/evil have come from the East on a regular basis since the mongol hordes or before, and I speculate that he felt able to site the evil influences there as a standard folk memory echo, with which the LOTR abounds. And that being the case, everyone else, Hobbits included, had nowhere else to come from but the West.. in the case of Hobbits, incidentally, the North West.And Mordor is clearly in the SE rather than the E per se.<br /><br />Interesting article, though, thanks<br /><br />Jerry WAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post-72274144365913769602013-01-10T03:02:00.277-05:002013-01-10T03:02:00.277-05:00thanks for share.thanks for share<a href="http://www.justdetective.com/" title="徵信社" rel="nofollow">.</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com