![]() Tolkien’s (1892–1973) legendarium, ( note 1) focusing mainly on the beginning of evil and on the aspects of juxtaposing physical with spiritual, mortal with immortal and visible with invisible. This article discusses good and evil forces in J. He is currently a doctoral student at the University of Oulu, Finland. Keywords: Tolkien, Tolkien’s legendarium, good and evil, visible and invisible, mortal and immortalīiography: Jyrki Korpua is a Master of Arts in literary studies. As concrete examples of this juxtaposition from The Lord of the Rings, I discuss the beings of Balrog and Nazgûls, but also the Great Ring, the Elves, and characters of Tom Bombadil and Gandalf. Gandalf says that if his side loses, “many lands will pass under the shadow”. ![]() ![]() In addition to this, Aragorn reports the assumed death of Gandalf by saying that he “fell into Shadow”. Where Ainur are beings of light, evil forces are often described as shadows: Mordor, for example, is “Black-Land”, “where shadows lie”. For Tolkien, a word to describe Good is light, whereas Evil is described as dark or black. ![]() In The Silmarillion, for example, Ainur can “change form”, or, “walk unclad” without physical form, but those among them who turn evil, such as Melkor, lose this power. In Tolkien’s legendarium, the physical appearance is the key to the creation of “two levels”: the visible and the invisible world. From the cosmological view, the visible and invisible dichotomy is relevant. I discuss the Creation in The Silmarillion, which is at first supposedly good, but later becomes “marred” because of Melkor, who is at the beginning greatest of the angelic beings of Ainur, but later becomes the enemy and the symbol of pride and evil. Tolkien’s legendarium, focusing mainly on the beginning of evil and on the aspects of juxtaposing physical with spiritual, mortal with immortal and visible with invisible. Tolkien’s Legendarium: Concerning Dichotomy between Visible and InvisibleĪbstract: This article discusses good and evil forces in J. Balrogs ride Dragons in the elder texts which is something so cool that I think I’m going to explode, but yes, when they were more of them, they varied in size and shape so it wouldn’t be hundreds of Balrogs the size of Durin’s Bane, but just the thought of hundreds of them in any form and Gothmog would have been bigger than Durin’s Bane and I think I just probably freaked you out with all of that, but my point was you are right….Balrogs are cool.Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research, Volume 1, Issue 1, pages 46-55. I think they, like any other species, would have greater and lesser examples and Durin’s Bane is a greater Balrog. Most of them were destroyed at the end of the First Age, and you are correct, Tolkien’s earlier texts had them as twice man-sized. The particular Balrog in FOTR was known as Durin’s Bane. They battled Feanor in Angband and were lead by the Lord of the Balrogs “Gothmog” which Jackson gave to the twisted pink orc in Return of the King. They were seduced by Melkor (Morgoth) and twisted into the form you see them traditionally portrayed. The Silmarillion calls them “scourges of fire”. Balrogs are Maiar essentially the same level of being as Gandalf and the rest of the Istari. ![]()
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