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The Roots of Day
The Roots of Day@rootsofday·
Although it did just occur to me again that the liturgical calendar and the events of the war of the ring seem to line up very well. This would be attributed to the revision, I imagine, but I wonder if liturgy isn't indeed a significant key to reading the LOTR with much gain. I'm sure I've seen a book title with this idea in it.
R.A.R. Knight@trad_poet

Nearly all of the mythology was written, including the drafting of the Lord of the Rings without an explicit aim to embed Roman Catholic liturgies etc, he does explicitly state that he agreed it was a religious work, unconscious at first, but conscious in the revision. He did not rewrite the entire mythology constructed from 1917 onward, but seems to have revised explicit contradictions out of the work that would not align with a catholic worldview. The morality and much more in the book is a mixture of ore-christian Northern Europe and obviously Christianity as he would obviously understand it to be. Nowhere does he say the work is ‘code’ for his Catholicism. The work stands in itself as myth, his mythopoeic sub-creation.

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R.A.R. Knight
R.A.R. Knight@trad_poet·
@rootsofday I have never read it in that way, I don’t think most have or would, and we have all gained much. There are symbolic and thematic parallels that are applicable? But a key? That requires an allegorical map that Tolkien always refuted.
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The Roots of Day
The Roots of Day@rootsofday·
It's a good point. I think, though I have never intentionally read his work like that, that I am beginning to doubt his stance, while respecting it. I sense that he wants to protect his work from abuse. I should probably just focus on writing allegory of my own instead of projecting. Really appreciate your insights, though.
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R.A.R. Knight@trad_poet·
@rootsofday No worries—myth must remain an open affair, a source of wonder and infinite applicability, shaping it into allegory I believe is one step from dogma, and doctrine—and it may exhaust meaning in the process. My two cents.
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