He was always adamant about that. The most “curtains are fucking blue” person ever. Meanwhile its impossible to not see a lot of very obvious parrells to WW1 and WW2 at minimum.
Like please try to not think that the Dead Marshes were inspired by experiencing WW1. i dare even the most media illiterate to think there’s nothing there.
He wasn’t thr most curtains are blue guy ever, here’s the full quote:
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.
There is a major difference there and he had said in other occasions that he’s sure aspects of his work do reflect his life experiences but never as any intended 1:1 paralel
Also Numenor is funny from this angle: an island, where local civilization slowly turned from peaceful rural people into technologically advanced maritime slave-trading colonialist empire, which twisted its religion to place its monarch at the top of it and repressed those who still followed the old religion. That, of course, has absolutely no relation to Tolkien’s Catholicism and his dislike of Industrial revolution and contemporary Britain.
JRR “Analogy is bad” Tolkien
He was always adamant about that. The most “curtains are fucking blue” person ever. Meanwhile its impossible to not see a lot of very obvious parrells to WW1 and WW2 at minimum.
Like please try to not think that the Dead Marshes were inspired by experiencing WW1. i dare even the most media illiterate to think there’s nothing there.
He wasn’t thr most curtains are blue guy ever, here’s the full quote:
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.
There is a major difference there and he had said in other occasions that he’s sure aspects of his work do reflect his life experiences but never as any intended 1:1 paralel
Oh that’s cool. That’s actually a really intetesting perspective on writing
Also Numenor is funny from this angle: an island, where local civilization slowly turned from peaceful rural people into technologically advanced maritime slave-trading colonialist empire, which twisted its religion to place its monarch at the top of it and repressed those who still followed the old religion. That, of course, has absolutely no relation to Tolkien’s Catholicism and his dislike of Industrial revolution and contemporary Britain.