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1. Tolkien, J. R. R. The Silmarillion. New York: Ballantine Books, 1977. Print
2. Koucher, Paul H. A Reader's Guide to The Silmarillion. Boston: Houston Mifflin Company, 1980. Print
3. Purtill, Richard L. J. R. R. Tolkien Myth, Morality, and Religom. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1981. Print. |
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Tolkien uses symbolism in his books.
He takes most of his reference from the Bible and he ties it into his work. Most of his stories are based of the Bible and are very religious. In the Silmarillion, he makes the story of creation on his own way but it is centered around Christianity |
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| Tolkien also bases his stories off of mythology, English, Norse, Greek; it also relates to other ancient cizilizations because of how he describes the creation or gods/goddesses. |
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"Ther was Eru, the One, who in Arda is caled Ilvatar; and he made the first of the Ainur, the Holy Ones, and they were the off spring of his thoughts, and they were with him before aught else were made."
Eru (Iluvatar)is God
the Ainur (Holy Ones) are angels.
This is the beginning of the creation before Earth and Humans were created when God made the Angels. |
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"...Imperishable Flam..."
Its the Holy Spirit |
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Bottom of Page 3 and beginning of Page 4. |
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"Then the voice of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumet, and viols and organs, and like unto countlss choirs singing with words..."
Talking about the Cherubims and Seraphims exalting God. |
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"But as the theme progressed, it came into the heart of Melkor to interweave matters of his own imagining that were not in accord to the theme of Iluvatar; he sought out therein to increase the power and glory of the past assigned to himself. To Melkor among the Ainur had been given the greatest gifts of power and knowledge, and he had a share of the gifts of his brethern... But being alone he had begun to concieve thoughts of his own unlike those of his brethern."
Melkor is Lucifer.
He has discovered that he wants more power and to have control and not to do everything that Iluvatar wants him to do. He is beginning to have freewill. He has become different because he is taking matters into his own hands instead of following the plan. |
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Bottom of Page 4 to the beginning of Page 5 |
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"Some of these thoughts he now wove into his music, and straightaway discord arose about him, and many that sang nigh him grew dispondent, and their thought was disturbed and their music faltered;but some began to attune their music to his rather that to the thought which they had at first. Then the discord of Melkor spread ever wider..."
Lucifer is spreading his thoughts of becoming more powerful and there are some angels that know he is wrong and they stay away from him, but there are others that decide to follow him. |
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"Then Iluvatar spoke, and he said: 'Might are the Ainur, and mightiest among them is Melkor; but that he may know, and all the Ainur, that I am Iluvatar, those things that ye have sung, I will show them forth, that ye may see what ye have done. And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempeth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagine.'"
Lucifer was known as the highest of the archangels and angels in heaven until his fall. God is saying that He is God and none of his angels can be more mightier than he is nor can they change the plan that he has made. |
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"For the Children of Iluvatar were concieved by him alone; and they came with the third theme, and were not in the theme which Iluvatar propounded at the beginninm anf none of the Ainur had part in their making. Therefore when they beheld them, the more did they love them, being things other than themeselves, strange and free..."
This is the creation of Adam and Eve, but Tolkien made it seem that there were more people than just the two. He said that it was from his creation meaning that he made them by himself with no one to help. Also it said that they were "strange and free" because they were not angels and that they had freewill unlike the angels. |
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"But he desired rather to subdue to his will both Elves and Men, envying the gifts with which Ilúvatar promises to endow them; and he wished himself to have subjects and servants, and to be called Lord, and to be a master over other wills."
This is Melkor's plan to control all of the people Iluvatar had created. He wants to be a god. |
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"Of the fabric of Earth had Aule thought, to whom Iluvatar had given the skill and knowledge scarce less than to Melkor;"
It's saying that the Children we're given knowledge, but it wasn't the same as the one's given to the angels |
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"Ans Manwe and Ulmo have from the beginning been allied, and in all things have served most faithfully the purpose of Iluvatar."
These are two of the Archangels that follow what God has wanted ever since the beginning (Michael and Gabriel) |
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"...and they need it not, save only as we use reiment, and yet we may be naked and suffer no loss of our being. Therefore the Valar may walk, if they will, unclad, and then even the Eldar cannot clearly percieve them, though they be present. But when they desire to clothe themselves the Valar take upon them forms some as of male and some as of female; for the difference of temper they had even from their beginning, and it is but bodied forth in the choice of each, not made by choice, even as with us male and female may be shown iby the reimant but is not mafe thereby."
This is the creation of both man and women ho we don't choose what we are but we are created in the way that God has planned. It also mentinos how we were created and walked around naked and without suffering (just like Adam and Eve had). |
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"And thus was the habitation of the Children of Iluvatar established at the last in the Deeps of Time and amidst the imnumerable stars."
This is kind of saying that there were a lot children made like what god promised Abraham making his kids as numberous as the stars. |
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"... but Manwe is dearest to Iluvatar and understands most clearly his purposes."
This would be referring to his angel Michael being the closest to him (after to fall of Satan) |
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| This is the creatino of the "Gods" od certain elements of the Earth. He changes the style that he was doing, instead of focusing on the Catholic aspect of his writing, he changes to more of a mythology style. He makes it more of a polytheistic style, coming from the Norse whom he based some of his styles off of. |
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"Among those of his servants that have names the greatest was that spirit whom the Eldar called Sauron, or Gorthaur the Cruel. In his beginning he was od Maiar of Aule, and he remained mightier in the lore of that people. In all the deeds of Melkor the Morgoth upon Arda, in his vast works and in the deciets of cunning, Sauron had a part, and was only less evil than himself. But in after years he rose like a shadow of Morgoth and a ghost of his malice, and walked behind him on the same ruinous path down into the void."
This is talking about how Satan himself had his own "Archangels". It also plays a part in the Lord of the Rings series in the creation of evil where Sauron is protrayed as Satan. |
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| "Now Melkor began the delving and building of a vast fortress, deep under Earth, beneath tdark mountains |
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Eru, because he is like God, created the earth in the same way as he did. He first created the angels, then the world, finally he created people to live on the earth.
Eru made Ainur, then Ea, then he created his "Children" the elves and humans.
God is known to have made the angels first, then in the story of creation he made he world and everything in it and at the end, he added humans. |
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"But in the north Melkor built his stregnth, and he slept not, but watched, and laboured; and the evil things that he had perverted walk abroad, and the dark and slumbering woods were haunted by monstersand shapes of dread. And in Utumno he gatrhered his demons about him, those spirits who first adhered to him in the days of his splendour, and became most like him in his corruption "
This is talking about how he makes his demaons appear in different forms and they walk among us all so we don't know if there are demons or no. |
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