Legolas

Tolkien's Vision

Nocturnal Meeting by Maria Lombide Ezpeleta -

Gildor Inglorion, hobbits and nazgul.

The Eden “myth” was at the very heart of Tolkein's creation of The Silmarilion, as well as being at the very heart of the Creation myth contained within it. Tolkien's longing for this lost Eden and his mystical glimpses of it, inspired and motivated by his sense of “exile” from the fullness of truth, was the source of his creativity. At the core of The Silmarillion, indeed at the core of all his work, was a hunger for the truth that transcends mere facts: the infinite and eternal Reality which was beyond the finite and temporal perception of humanity. - Joseph Pearce

Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and a friend were discussing the nature of myth while on a walk in 1931. Incidentally, it was an occurrence that played no small part in Lewis's conversion to Christianity. Lewis explained to the other two his belief that though they have a certain power, myths are “lies and therefore worthless, even though breathed through silver.” “No,” said Tolkien. “They are not lies.” At that moment, Lewis later recalled, there was “a rush of wind which came so suddenly on the still, warm evening and sent so many leaves pattering down that we thought it was raining. We held our breath.”

...We have come from God, Tolkien argued, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God.

...this is how Tolkien understood his own Middle Earth, as “a splintered fragment of the true light.”

Elladan and Elrohir find Celebrian

Arwen returns to Cerin Amroth

Thranduil and Legolas hunt Smeagol

Doriath Yellow

Doriath Green