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drogo_drogo (Registered User) |
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Sat, 5/1/2004 at 8:16 EDT (Sat, 5/1/2004 at 6:16 CST) |
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Tom is a bridge betweeen the storybook and the epic <drogo_drogo> [5/1/2004 @ 8:14] (1/2)
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Link to a discussion of the Tom theories
Men do go, and have in history gone on journeys and quests,
without any intention of acting out allegories of life. . .
Most men make some journeys. Whether long or short, with an
errand or simply to go 'there and back again', is not of primary
importance. As I tried to express it in Bilbo's Walking Song,
even an afternoon-to-evening walk may have important effects.
When Sam had got no further than the Woody End he had already
had an 'eye-opener'. For if there is anything in a journey of
any length, to me it is this: a deliverance from the plantlike
state of helpless passive sufferer, an exercise however small of
will, and mobility -- and of curiosity, without which a rational
mind becomes stultified. Tolkien's Notes on W.H. Auden's Review of
The Return of the King, Letter #183
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