Carta 208
Summary
Tolkien stated that The Lord of the Rings had no "message" – no preaching, no delivering of a person vision of truth. He wrote an exciting story with an atmosphere and background he found personally attractive, although inevitably one's own taste, ideas, and beliefs become incorporated. Only upon reading the work himself with criticism in mind did Tolkien notice the theme of Death (hardly an original "message" said Tolkien). There was a "message" that it was perilous to confuse true "immortality" with limitless serial longevity, the first being freedom from time while the second is clinging to time. The confusion is the work of the Enemy; compare the death of Aragorn with a Ringwraith. The Elves were tempted towards idle melancholy, burdened with memory, and attempts to halt time.
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