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Originally Posted by The Procrastinator  (Aside: Grim, I knew what you meant really, but I couldn't hold back the rant! The whole Faramir thing sets me off...its my red hair.  )
Marvin, the last line of your last comment fits so well with a character who is monumentally depressed...trust you to come up with that idea. |
Tbh it was more morbid curiosity , and went along with my musings as to the relevance of the two World Wars on Tolkein's state of mind when writing LOTR. As the very idea of victory for Nazi Germany was unthinkable , would Tolkein have had a similar intolerance to the notion of Sauron regaining his grip of Middle Earth?
It would be interesting to know whether his work would have been as popular today if it had ended with Frodo and Sam being thrown into Mt Doom , and the rest of the Fellowship crushed before the gates of Mordor by the Ring-weilding Dark Lord
I think we all enjoy in fiction seeing evil do well temporarily , if nothing else to show the magnitude of the task facing the 'good guys' - who DIDN'T want to see Dick Dastardley catch the pigeon , or win at least one Wacky Race , or wish that Wile E. Coyote could get a taste of Roadrunner pie ; and I don't there is any coincidence that ESB is seen as the best of the Star Wars trilogy partly for this reason - but whether we want to see the bad guys be ultimately victorious at the end of the story is another matter altogether