Peter L’Official writes: Before Frodo and Sam, there were Beren and Luthien. A case for revisiting “The Silmarillion.” In the last dread days of disco-dûr, in the midst of the Seventh Age — known in perhaps a more familiar tongue as “the Nineteen Seventies” — there emerged from the House of Houghton Mifflin, and later from that of Ballan-tine, a great book of which much was expected, though few but the most ardent of devotees could wholly comprehend it. It has, in the Tolkienian spirit, valiantly returned. [More]
Tolkien’s cosmological vision
February 18th, 2005 by xoanon
