Friday, 6 November 2015

{Pilgrim's Progress [and Hobbit/LotR]: as Outer Circle?}[26th March 1987]

[Redbook3:38-39][19870326:1543s]{Pilgrim's Progress [and Hobbit/LotR]: as Outer Circle?}[26th March 1987]

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It is satisfying to find parallels between the Circles and other relevant works. It is too easy, perhaps, given the multiplicity of events in such works and the different options on the Circles. Only the strongest pattern should pass consideration as a conscious or unconscious choice by the writer.

It could be argued that the Hobbit/Lord of the Rings starts tentatively with Air (Eagles and Smaug), proceeds through much Earth travel to destroy the ring in Fire, and ends with Bilbo and Frodo passing over the Water to a new Circle. But I think that is stretching it a bit.*


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