Google| Subject | Re: Reading LotR and the newsgroups (was Re: Don't aspire to succeed - that right belongs to America |
| From | Yuk Tang |
| Date | 08/18/2004 00:16 (08/18/2004 00:16) |
| Message-ID | <Xns9548ECD7CB029jimlaker2yahoocom@130.133.1.4> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien,rec.arts.books.tolkien |
| Follows | ?jevind L?ng |
"?jevind L?ng" <dnivejo.gnal@swipnet.se>wrote in news:QZuUc.16627$qn2.3010@nntpserver.swip.net:
?jevind L?ngThat's why I like UT so much; the extensive prose of LotR describing a story with a completely different feel to it. I didn't know it on my first reading (not having read the First Age mythology), but the best parts of LotR echoed the stories of the Silm.
"Yuk Tang" <jim.laker2@yahoo.com>skrev i meddelandet news:Xns9548D2B1BDFB1jimlaker2yahoocom@130.133.1.4...
[snip OL's stuff about Faramir] [Perhaps Ojevind doesn't think much of the OP's writing?]Yuk Tang?jevind L?ng
A Numenorean who is also human, with their attendant weaknesses and (more importantly) their strengths. And I'm not talking about his martial ability, either. A little slice of the best of the Edain in the First Age. Tuor, perhaps?
They do give me a bit of the same feel.
[snip]The quotes tend to support this thought, with the Ranger from the North (said with a depth feeling that cannot be entirely spontaneous) being brought out to supplant him.?jevind L?ngAgree about the masterly representation of Denethor.Yuk Tang
IMO the most interesting character in LotR, especially when his history in the Appendices is taken into account. A Second Age equivalent would be Tar-Minastir, well-meaning and highly able, but overtaken by the ego-trip of heading a powerful nation. Or perhaps from the First Age, Turin, a gifted character consumed by character flaws and circumstances.
The fact that a mysterious stranger was favoured before himself by everybody, even his own father, was probably something that Denethor never forgot or forgave. I wonder if he realized towards the end that the claimant to the throne out of the north was no one other than his old nemesis Thorongil.
-- Cheers, ymt.
08/18/2004
