#157- Tolkien's The Silmarillion Part 1
Online Great Books Podcast
00:00
The Completeness and Complexity of a World
Tolkien grew with this thing. He says on page XVII in my hard copy. I always had the sense of recording what was already there somewhere, not of inventing. So for him this is not a story that, oh I guess I'll concerning Hobbits and he's not just going to come up with Hobbits out of nowhere. He had them already from when he was a very young person as far as he can remember he's had these stories. The experience of it is at times discovery. It feels like there's a goddess telling you all of this stuff. Right. There's a way the things should fit together and you can say well what did they are and they
Transcript
Play full episode
