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Tolkien's Cosmology - Divine Beings and Middle-earth (Hardcover)
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Tolkien's Cosmology - Divine Beings and Middle-earth (Hardcover)
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Demonstrating the unity of Tolkien's created world across
Middle-earth's Ages. An in-depth examination of the role of divine
beings in Tolkien's work, Tolkien's Cosmology: Divine Beings and
Middle-earth brings together Tolkien's many references to such
beings and analyzes their involvement within his created world.
Unlike many other commentators, Sam McBride asserts that a careful
reading of the whole of the author's corpus shows a coherent, if
sometimes contradictory, divine presence in the world.In The
Silmarillion, an epic history of the First Age of Middle-earth,
Tolkien describes the Ainur, angelic beings under the direction of
Eru Iluvatar, the legendarium's god, as creators of physical
reality. Some of these divine beings, the Valar and the Maiar,
enter physical reality to oversee its development and prepare for
the appearance of sentient life forms in Middle-earth: Elves and
Humans, Dwarves, and eventually Hobbits. In the early stages of
this history, the Valar and Maiar interact directly with Elves and
Humans, opposing the work of evil beings led by Melkor. Yet Tolkien
appears, at first glance, to have ignored this pantheon in The
Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, set in the Third Age of
Middle-earth. Tolkien's letters, however, suggest the cosmological
structure continues. And representatives of the Valar and Maiar can
be seen at work, such as Gandalf and Saruman. Tolkien also
introduces hints that his divine beings continue to influence
events invisibly, as with the prominence of luck in The Hobbit and
fortuitous weather conditions in The Lord of the Rings. In the end,
McBride argues, Tolkien's cosmology allows room for everything from
poor decision-making to evil, suffering, and death, all part of a
belief system that will make the final victory of Good much more
powerful.
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