![]() I am intrigued by them and can walk into one for a moment and even appreciate what the box does. Some of us, myself included, are textbook definitions of "wanderers." I've been one all my life. No one quote, taken from the corpus of Middle-Earth literature and extrapolated onto t-shirts, stickers, prints, crochets, (we did an early Tolkien mug that has, unfortunately, been retired because the name 'Tolkien' itself appears to be copyrighted.) is more quintessential than this one: Only time will tell how his works may be read in future generations and cultures and what significance they may carry in the long history of the world.īut in our culture-a culture rampant with commercialization, materialism, innovations in technology, and what some theologians and critics have called (for better or worse) demythologization-our appreciation for Tolkien may in part be driven by our desire to find him as a mirror for our own present condition. He paved the way not only for the creation of modern high fantasy and the deep worlds that they create but also for the potential for modern myth-making. A British WWI Veteran who found his way into the philological world in linguistics, Tolkien's legacy on the world as it currently is cannot be estimated. Tolkien it might be that he represents one of the 20th century's most notable iconoclasts. ![]() If there's anything that one could say about J.R.R. ![]()
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