O maravilhoso na literatura tolkieniana: um olhar sobre a modernidade

Abstract

In addition to being authored by The lord of the rings [1954], John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was also a philologist and professor at the University of Oxford who dedicated his life to the study and creation of languages, in parallel to literary writing. Although his most famous work still rests in The lord of the rings, the epic novel is part of a larger mythical literary project, in which Tolkien tried to supply the lack of a properly British mythology. Thus, the writer conceived a complete absolute universe, the stage for his unusual characters. Moreover, Tolkien was critical of his time: he was contrary to the two great wars, having actively fought and experienced the battlefields. Thus, war was one of the main themes of his literature. In this sense, The Lord of the Ringsis also a narrative about a struggle against totalitarian power. Thus, the wonderful serves as a literary tool in which modernity is reflected, albeit unintentionally, by the author, who denied the intentional allegory. From this perspective, Tolkien's look at modernity through Eä'swonderful universe is analyzed here. Therefore, in order to delimit the corpus, this work focuses on Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.