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Lady Éowyn to Aragorn: “All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Eorl and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.”
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Lady Éowyn to Aragorn: “All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Eorl and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.”
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“[The Lord of the Rings] is not as seems widely supposed about ‘powerâ€�. Power-seeking is only the motive-power that sets events going, and is relatively unimportant, I think. It is mainly concerned with Death, and Immortality; and the ‘escapesâ€�: serial longevity, and hoarding memory.
Letter 211
To Rhona Beare”
― The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
Letter 211
To Rhona Beare”
― The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
“Gandalf as Ring-Lord would have been far worse than Sauron. He would have remained ‘righteousâ€�, but self-righteous. He would have continued to rule and order things for ‘goodâ€�, and the benefit of his subjects according to his wisdom (which was and would have remained great).
[The draft ends here. In the margin Tolkien wrote: ‘Thus while Sauron multiplied [illegible word] evil, he left “good� clearly distinguishable from it. Gandalf would have made good detestable and seem evil.’]
Letter 246
From a letter to Mrs Eileen Elgar (drafts)”
― The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
[The draft ends here. In the margin Tolkien wrote: ‘Thus while Sauron multiplied [illegible word] evil, he left “good� clearly distinguishable from it. Gandalf would have made good detestable and seem evil.’]
Letter 246
From a letter to Mrs Eileen Elgar (drafts)”
― The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
“Gandalf faced and suffered death; and came back or was sent back, as he says, with enhanced power. But though one may be in this reminded of the Gospels, it is not really the same thing at all. The Incarnation of God is an infinitely greater thing than anything I would dare to write. Here I am only concerned with Death as part of the nature, physical and spiritual, of Man, and with Hope without guarantees.
Letter 181
To Michael Straight [drafts]”
― The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
Letter 181
To Michael Straight [drafts]”
― The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
“Of course, Allegory and Story converge, meeting somewhere in Truth. So that the only perfectly consistent allegory is a real life; and the only fully intelligible story is an allegory. â€� You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: an allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power. But that is only because all power magical or mechanical does
always so work. You cannot write a story about an apparently simple magic ring without that bursting in, if you really take the ring seriously, and make things happen that would happen, if such a thing existed.
Letter 109
To Sir Stanley Unwin”
― The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
always so work. You cannot write a story about an apparently simple magic ring without that bursting in, if you really take the ring seriously, and make things happen that would happen, if such a thing existed.
Letter 109
To Sir Stanley Unwin”
― The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
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