Imagine a man whose greatest passions in life are reading poetry, writing stories about elves, acting in plays and inventing fictional languages. This man weeps at the choices of his own fictional characters, recites whole passages of ancient poetry from memory, dresses up as medieval warriors, mourns the perceived needless felling of trees, and writes letters from Father Christmas for his children.
Took you a while to summarise it, but that’s not your fault. Tolkien was wicked interesting! “ This is civilized masculinity - chivalrous knighthood, the warrior-poet, the saintly king and the elven ranger of legend.”
A fine essay! I would add that King David is also, to one degree or another, an example of a historical warrior-poet king.
Took you a while to summarise it, but that’s not your fault. Tolkien was wicked interesting! “ This is civilized masculinity - chivalrous knighthood, the warrior-poet, the saintly king and the elven ranger of legend.”
God bless, Kaleb