tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746173806126403959.post736044915464644227..comments2023-11-07T06:20:12.181-08:00Comments on Tolkien: Medieval and Modern: Spaceships: On Travel Between Primary and Secondary Realities"Tolkien: Medieval and Modern"http://www.blogger.com/profile/04348913969813157482noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746173806126403959.post-39041792325036639212014-06-06T20:25:11.816-07:002014-06-06T20:25:11.816-07:00Your idea that language serves as a vehicle to con...Your idea that language serves as a vehicle to connect us with the mythology of the LOTR intrigues me, but I feel the subject is quite complex. One interesting idea we have covered is that Tolkien believed that language required mythology or else it was dead. In a way, mythology is a vehicle for language to be kept alive. Or perhaps language is an excuse to bring fantasy out. In an essay called “Do-It-Yourself Cosmology” that I read for my final paper, Ursula K. Le Guin says that “Fantasy is so introverted by nature that often some objective ‘hook’ is necessary to bring it out into the open an turn it into literature... Nowadays it is science that often give fantasy a hand up from the interior depths, and we have science fiction, a modern, intellectualized, extraverted form of fantasy” (Le Guin 124). This quote agrees with your idea that space ships are used as a vehicle to connect the primary and secondary world as a way to “give fantasy a hand up from the interior depths”. In the Lost Road we actually see Tolkien, as Alboin, find this connection to fantasy first through words that keep coming to him. In LOTR, Tolkien brings to fruition the mythology these words brought to him.<br /><br />-Emily Berez <br /><br />Citation: K., Le Guin Ursula. The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. New York: Putnam, 1979. Print.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11423829878913658639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746173806126403959.post-1624904003869621212014-04-11T12:49:52.881-07:002014-04-11T12:49:52.881-07:00I like this notion of language as a path between d...I like this notion of language as a path between different realities that you've highlighted here. I wonder if we can see it in effect elsewhere within Tolkien's works, perhaps on an even smaller level. Much as Sauron is Melkor on a lesser level, and [arguably] Saruman is second- rate Sauron, can we see smaller instances of language bridging two realities in the movements of our heroes throuh LotR. I would not be surprised. dyingsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02087241514388178221noreply@blogger.com