Exploring Theme and Vision in
J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth
By
Rico Marcel Abrahamsen
Copyright: May
15, 2003
Contents
"The significance of myth is not to be pinned on
paper by analytical reasoning.
It is at its best when it is presented by a poet who
feels rather than makes
explicit what his theme portends; who presents it incarnate
in the world of
history and geography…."
– J.R.R. Tolkien on Beowulf.
Introduction:
Subcreation – Writing Middle-earth:
Secondary
Belief
Stages
of Imagination
Modes of the Heroic:
The Irony of Evil:
Mythic
Consciousness