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Christopher Tolkien: Stories
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While the Judeo-Christian God (Yahweh) created the world with a word, Tolkien's God Eru or Iluvatar creates it with music. And while Yahweh's creation was a solitary one, Iluvatar collaborates with his angels, the Ainur, in a choral piece for heavenly voices that not only brings all things into being, but ... fixes almost the entire fate of the universe. (Tolkien later altered the story so that the choral performance is only the blueprint; creation is only finalized when Iluvatar speaks a word of power.) Evil comes into the world when the disgruntled angel Melkor/Melko/Morgoth (a closet Wagnerian) invents dissonance to show his originality. While pride was to blame for Lucifer's fall, Melkor's is due to a mixture of pride and frustrated creativity. Iluvatar reserves the making of living beings as his exclusive prerogative, and Melkor looks out on the unpopulated world and longs to create "children" of his own.
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For ardent Tolkien readers, the series is a fascinating look at one of the great literary creations of the 20th Century, full of rich detail, writings never before seen, and stories only now being told. For more casual fans, it's text better left unread.
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In the next weeks Tolkien participated in at least one of the disastrous stormings of the Schwaben Redoubt, an impregnable fortification of the German trenches. Again there were heavy losses in his battalion.
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