#158- Tolkien's The Silmarillion Part 2
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Tolkien and the Baron
The theme of mortality, if you wanted to trace that out, it's not an allegory, but there's some food for your thought on that. So Luthian chooses death with Baron. You could do some stuff about Tolkien and his wife, Edith. To what extent, I mean, she was a good looking lady too. There's one picture of her young that you can find, one or two. She looks kind of elvish. She does. They get married in 1916. And then he's off to war. He doesn't want to live to be 92, 105, 114. Clinging to life forever. Forever old. The boomer would say yes
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