12/10/2023 0 Comments Undying lands![]() ![]() He later began a project with C.S Lewis where Tolkien would write a "time travel" story and Lewis would write a "space travel" story, but Tolkien couldn't help but write it in the context of his Silmarillion mythology. Tolkien's original concept of Arda was as a flat world. In the context of the Akallabêth in the published Silmarillion, no. There is nowhere else where Tolkien discusses this idea. The Nature of Middle-earth - "The Númenórean Catastrophe & End of “Physical” Aman" ![]() but also the númenórean catastrophe events depicted in the already-published Lord of the Rings: e.g., Frodo’s bodily journey to a seemingly very physical Tol Eressëa. Not only does some of this thinking apparently contradict long-standing “facts” of the then-unpublished mythology. It is evident from the haste of his writing and the fluidity of his conceptions that Tolkien is here thinking on paper (as he often did). When this was republished in The Nature of Middle-earth, editor Carl Hostetter noted in his commentary that this text was just Tolkien "thinking on paper", and that it doesn't fit with the events of the books, namely Frodo's journey. La Feuille de la Compagnie #3 - Fragments on Elvish Reincarnation The flora and fauna (even if different in some from those of Middle-earth) would become ordinary beasts and plants with usual conditions of mortality. ![]() It would just become an ordinary land, an addition to Middle-earth, the European-African-Asiatic contiguous landmass. But as Manwë had already said to the Númenóreans: “It is not the land that is hallowed (and free of death), but it is hallowed by the dwellers there” – the Valar. I think now that it is best that it should remain a physical landmass (America!). Therefore it could not be removed, without remaining visible as part of Arda or as a new satellite! It must either remain as a landmass bereft of its former inhabitants or be destroyed. Is Aman “removed” or destroyed at the Catastrophe? This text was first published in 2014, as part of "Fragments on Elvish Reincarnation". In this he explored the idea of Valinor being removed to a spiritual realm and the landmass remaining behind, empty of its inhabitants and becoming America. Both built a small boat and sailed to the West.In c.1959, Tolkien wrote a text which he titled "The Númenórean Catastrophe & End of “Physical” Aman". Even though dwarves were never allowed to travel to Undying Lands, Legolas still asked his best friend Gimli to accompany him to Valinor. After 120 years, when the majority of The Fellowship of the Ring has passed away, Legolas decided that his time on Middle-earth has also come to an end. Legolas and Gimli stayed in Minas Tirith for Aragorn’s coronation and then traveled together around the world. After two years he left Middle-earth and sailed to Valinor alongside Bilbo, Frodo, Elrond, and Galadriel. They both married and had children, dying peacefully in Gondor.Īfter the war has ended, Gandalf crowned Aragorn and accompanied hobbits to the Shire. Merry and Pippin also returned to the Shire and roused the hobbits against Saruman’s forces during the Scouring of the Shire. Sam, Frodo’s gardener, and friend who was by his side throughout the whole trilogy, returned to the Shire, became the mayor, married, and had thirteen children. Frodo and Bilbo Baggins sailed to Valinor, also known as Undying Lands, after making a significant contribution to the history of Shire and rebuilding it after the horrible war. ![]()
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