Sublime

But to achieve this he had been obliged to let a great part of his own inherent power (a frequent and very significant motive in myth and fairy-story) pass into the One Ring. While he wore it, his power on earth was actually enhanced. But even if he did not wear it, that power existed and was in ‘rapport’ with himself: he was not ‘diminished’.

“After

Of course, such an overweening purpose did not develop all at once. The mere stories were the thing. They arose in my mind as ‘given’ things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew.

Their long life aids their achievements in art and wisdom, but breeds a possessive attitude to these things, and desire awakes for more time for their enjoyment. Foreseeing this in part, the gods laid a Ban on the Númenóreans from the beginning: they must never sail to Eressëa, nor westward out of sight of their own land.

The ‘Elves’ are ‘immortal’, at least as far as this world goes: and hence are concerned rather with the griefs and burdens of deathlessness in time and change, than with death.

La construction de l’Odyssée n’est ni linéaire ni chronologique. Elle est moderne, dirait-on aujourd’hui (moderne, mot utilisé pour désigner toute chose immuable). Le poème raconte trois événements. Le départ de Télémaque à la recherche de son père ; les aventures d’Ulysse revenant à Ithaque après la guerre de Troie ; l’arrivée d’Ulysse en son roya

We live now upon an island amid many perils, and our hands are more often upon the bowstring than upon the harp.