XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 17:53:13 +0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig   
    wrote:   
      
   >["Followup-To:" nach rec.arts.books.tolkien gesetzt.]   
   >Steve Hayes  schrieb:   
   >> On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 08:25:26 +0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig   
   >> wrote:   
   >   
   >>>And what attitudes (perceived by whom?) are these?   
   >>   
   >> The attitudes of Aragorn and Boromir perceived by those who believe   
   >> that the attitude of Bernie Sanders resembles the former and the   
   >> attitude of Hilary clinton resembles the latter.   
   >   
   >What would those attitudes be, specifically?   
   >   
   >Looking back at your original posting which started this sub-thread,   
   >this must be quite self-evident to you ("says it all").  I wonder   
   >why you are incapable, or unwilling, to be more specific.   
      
   I have already explained (several times) why I am unwilling to be   
   specific: because being specific tends to turn myth into concepts or   
   allegory and thus destroys its nature as myth.   
      
   As C.S. Lewis wrote to Tolkien on 7 December 1929, after reading   
   Tolkien's poem on Beren and Luthien, "The two things that come out   
   clearly are the sense of reality in the background and the mythical   
   value: the essence of a myth being that it should have no taint of   
   allegory to the maker and yet should suggest incipient allegories to   
   the reader" (Carpenter 1978:30).   
      
      
      
      
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