Rreader Response and The Silmarillion

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English

 

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Eugene H

 

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June 5, 2014

 

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University

 

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I think Tolkien really wanted to write a Biblical allegory and a critique on ridiculous human nature really is. Illuvatar is a substitution for God, the Valar substitute the Angels and the three god made races are representative of human races. I think he didn't use more races because that would be too obvious and he wanted to be more subtle...
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I think he didn't use more races because that would be too obvious and he wanted to be more subtle. As I see it, this is what reader-response theory is about. It is about finding meaning in a text based on the reader's opinions, regardless of what the author may have wanted their novel to mean. By deciding that Tolkien's novel, The Silmarillion, is a critique on the Bible and human nature completely goes against what Tolkien himself thought...
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