I am not so sure it come from the mind of one man...initially yes untill it
gets into the hands of the reader or movie maker / watcher or internet
discusser or frantic fan etc.
But I think we demonstrate hear how once it is in the readers hands it really
becomes his or hers. I think that is why it is so popular, it is so open to the
experience of the partaker.
It is a different experience each tiem I read it.
Each time I discuss and share ideas, I get new ideas and they constantly
cirulate and meld.
I think that is what is intention was. I have a friend who is an English
Teacher, knows so much about Tolkien and his works since the early 60's, maybe
50's, forget.
She said: his intent was to create a myth that could be picked up by others and
spun off so that it would then become their.
She said it so much better than I did. But it helped me to calm down a tad
about the mvies differences since that is what PJ is doing.
I think the myth touches the lives of so many people on so many levels and look
at how brief a life it has
had.
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Mightier than Estė is Nienna, sister of Fėanturi; she dwells alone. She is acquainted with grief, and mourns for every wound that Arda suffered in the marring of Melkor. So great was her sorrow, as the Music unfolded that her song turned to lamentation long before its end, and the sound of mourning was woven into the themes of the World before it began. But she does not weep for herself; and those who hearken to her learn pity, and endurance in hope. . . . All those who wait in Mandos cry to her, for she brings strength to the spirit and turns sorrow to wisdom.
Valaquenta
