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J. R. R. Tolkien repeatedly dealt with the theme of death and immortality in Middle-earth. He stated directly that the "real theme" of The Lord of the Rings was "Death and Immortality." [T 1] In Middle-earth, Men are mortal, while Elves are immortal. One of his stories, The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen, explores the willing choice of death through ...
Jul 7, 2024 · Death and Immortality in Middle-earth is a collection of the proceedings of the 29th Tolkien Society Seminar held in Leeds in 2016. The book was published by The Tolkien Society in 2017 under the auspices of the Peter Roe Memorial Fund.
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Source The Tolkien Gateway and Wikipedia. 6 Carpenter H.: JRR Tolkien: A Biography, London, George Allen & Unwin, p. 169 ©2020 Denis Bridoux 2 denisbridoux@yahoo.com He actually was about 12 and a half years old when the event happened, as Rivendell was one of the four watercolour illustrations commissioned for the American edition of The Hobbit, and painted between May 11th and July 29th, 1937.
Aug 29, 2011 · Legolas departed over Sea when Aragorn died, but Tolkien doesn’t say that all his people left with him. Some of the Silvan Elves may have remained in Ithilien for many years. Thranduil seems to have stayed content in northern Greenwood (Mirkwood, which was renamed after the War of the Ring).
May 30, 2015 · Tolkien did attempt a follow-up, with the working title of The New Shadow, set in Eldarion's time, which he abandoned after only a dozen or so pages (The Peoples of Middle-earth (HoMe vol 12)). I understand that it dealt with pro-Orc, Sauron-worshipping cults of disillusioned young men in Gondor.
Nov 26, 2017 · The Tolkien Society and Luna Press Publishing are pleased to announce the publication of Death and Immortality in Middle-earth: Proceedings of The Tolkien Society Seminar 2016, the seventeenth book in the Peter Roe series.
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As to the origins of human mortality, Tolkien’s views changed late in life. Until roughly 1958, Tolkien consistently treated death as a divine gift and as inherent in human nature (L 204, S 265).23 Toward the end of life, Tolkien sought to bring a number of key features of his mythology more in line with Christian doctrine.
