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| Nick: |
drogo_drogo (Registered User) |
| Date/Time: |
Sun, 5/16/2004 at 11:57 EDT (Sun, 5/16/2004 at 9:57 CST) |
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passing of the hobbits? <Goldilocks Took> [5/15/2004 @ 9:52] (8/69)
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Heroic burial practices |
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In Tolkien's world, the heroes are sundered from their families and their ties
to the ordinary world. Frodo and Sam went outside the bounds of the world
altogether, though their journeys are symbolic deaths. As for Merry and
Pippin, they are fated to lay to rest apart from the other Brandybucks and
Tooks because they are now heroes in the traditional sense. It's fitting
that they lie with Aragorn (who doesn't even have Arwen beside him; she
returned to her homeland to be laid to rest, but she's not part of that male
heroic culture). This burial practice is perhaps an ethos of heroic
culture which does not gel with our modern sensibilities of burial customs, but
it is appropriate for the Hobbits who have grown beyond the family-oriented
world of the
Shire.
Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular
kind of Earth or is another planet of the science fiction sort but it's just
an old fashioned word for this world we live in, . . . at a different stage of imagination. --Tolkien's Last Radio Interview
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