tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post126817604936189682..comments2024-03-27T14:57:37.031+05:30Comments on Jabberwock: Tolkien's The Children of HúrinJabberwockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-10655385083531847232007-04-23T20:31:00.000+05:302007-04-23T20:31:00.000+05:30Prashanth: I take it you're joking? I wrote the Bu...Prashanth: I take it you're joking? I wrote the Business Standard piece, as the byline should make clear. This is a slightly more informal version.<BR/><BR/>Rakesh: true. Silmarillion and the other early stories have a grandeur that LOTR doesn't. Though that's the way it's supposed to be, I think - it's like Hindu mythology constantly telling us that the people who lived at the time of the Mahabharata (as the Kali-yuga approaches) were slighter figures compared to the people of Rama's time thousands of years earlier - that true "divinity" and "heroism" had abandoned the world. That's the trajectory of most myths.Jabberwockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-48388896212916837392007-04-23T19:42:00.000+05:302007-04-23T19:42:00.000+05:30I was just reading your piece. Please read this on...I was just reading your piece. Please read this one too.<BR/><BR/>http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?autono=281996&leftnm=5&subLeft=0&chkFlg=<BR/>Looks like plagiarism to me..Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13579093206365485014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-85838185196574648942007-04-23T09:57:00.000+05:302007-04-23T09:57:00.000+05:30I've been waiting to get my hands on this one. One...I've been waiting to get my hands on this one. One of the things that always depressed me about Lord of the Rings was that the most complete work of Tolkein's came from the very end of his mythology. Because that period is so depressingly trivial when read in conjunction with the Silmarillion. Read one after another, Silmarillion and LOTR leave one with a profound sense of loss. It will be good to delve in the greater, more epic times of Middle Earth with TCOH.RTPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00509490132576364316noreply@blogger.com