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Monsters and the Long Defeat
Before he began drafting The Lord of the Rings, “the long defeat” was already an important theme to J.R.R. Tolkien. Though it is operative in the writings that would in time become The Silmarillion, it was only implicitly present within them, an ingredient in their sad grandeur but not elaborated upon as a principle. It was in reflecting upon the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf for the Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture in 1936 that Tolkien would beg…
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Monsters and the Long Defeat
Before he began drafting The Lord of the Rings, “the long defeat” was already an important theme to J.R.R. Tolkien. Though it is operative in the writings that would in time become The Silmarillion, it was only implicitly present within them, an ingredient in their sad grandeur but not elaborated upon as a principle. It was in reflecting upon the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf for the Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture in 1936 that Tolkien would beg…
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