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Tolkien's Akallabêth and the Straight Road

DEATH // SENTENCE

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Tolkien's Disenchantment of the World

Tolkien's work tells a story of decline, right? It begins from the void with Luevato. The world is constantly eroding and more and more beauty disappears as time goes by. He was focused on this idea of the disenchantment of the world after the Industrial Revolution. This page contains a lot of motivations for Tolkien to write the Silmarillion.

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