Originally posted by Duggie
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The books of Tolkien contain death. And a lot of it. You'd read whole civilizations massacred, kings so good and noble you'd label them as saints be tortured and killed, and ultimately a permeating sense of hopelessness embodies every Tolkien book. And not just the 3 books. Let's talk about the Silma, the lost tales, the 2nd age, the 1st age.
These books contain suffering by the good guys and persistent near-invincibility of evil ones yet we read heroes here does not submit, they'd rather die.
Critics label the death theme of Tolkien's books as a result of him being an infantryman in WW1 and that in his company almost everyone died or was maimed by the war.
But Tolkien already dismissed those idiotic labels saying that he wrote the books for what it is and he does not hold in good light that his books be labeled definitively by a certain quasi-group.
You'd ask how I know.
Well it's what we call USING ONE'S BRAIN PROPERLY.
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