Tolkien knew how to create a myth of endings and farewells;
SM Stirling's Emberverse History is a sequel to Tolkien's Middle Earth History to the extent that some of Stirling's characters regard Tolkien's fictions as Histories and they also call their post-Change period the Fifth Age of Middle Earth;
Poul Anderson adapted Norse mythology as fiction contemporaneously with and independently of Tolkien -
like his contemporary, J.R.R. Tolkien, he is a significant successor to the Eddas, sagas and William Morris;
-copied from here.
Anderson was also a successor to several other very different authors as can be seen by reading the linked post.
See also None Better? II and Anderson And Tolkien.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I think you enjoyed watching Peter Jackson's "adaptation" of Tolkien's THE RETURN OF THE KING, so now is not the right to criticize the movie. I can do that another time.
Tolkien wrote a myth of endings and farewells (as well as beginnings)? I agree! And one of those endings was the fading and waning of the Elves, esp. after the Three Rings of the Elves lost their power. If they stayed in Middle Earth the Elves would continue to fade, slowly to forget and be forgotten. No, Elrond, Galadriel, and many of the High Elves decided, despite their love of Middle Earth, that it was better to depart over the Sea than to remain and become rustic dwellers of caves and glens.
Sean
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