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Although the English language has never suffered a dearth of would-be epic writers, none since Milton has achieved general recognition. The latest creator of a saga for Middle Earth is an Oxford professor, J. R. R. Tolkien...
...John Robert Renals Tolkien, Houghton Mifflin, $15, or George Allen and Unwin, $12, 1191 pages. Issued in three volumes as THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE TWO TOWERS, THE RETURN OF THE KING...
...scholar, Tolkien is well aware of the successes and failures which have marked the progression of both the epic and the language. He has faced the obstacles of any modern epic-maker: comprehending and making meaningful an ever-more-complex pattern of human existence and understanding, and evoking both awareness and awe with an increasingly vulgarized language. In these terms, he has succeeded...
...darkness as inherently self-destructive, by nature incapable of exercising their full potential or adequately coping with altruism. While the history of recent totalitarianism affords a limited example of this situation, the attitude seems at times overly optimistic, and the plot structure sometimes strains to justify it. Had Tolkien converted the work into a tragedy, he might well have made his impact even greater. Yet the portrayal of the conflict's complexities, especially the use of evil to a good end, is without parallel in a work of this scope...
...Fellowship of the Ring, by J. R. R. Tolkien. A fantasy about a hobbit who grows out of his tweens to fight Ores, Balrogs and Barrow-wights before he takes on the Cracks of Doom (TIME...