{"id":12885,"date":"2020-12-18T22:03:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T03:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=12885"},"modified":"2020-12-18T22:10:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T03:10:03","slug":"the-lord-of-the-rings-a-book-review-part-3-the-various-races-or-peoples-of-middle-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/18\/the-lord-of-the-rings-a-book-review-part-3-the-various-races-or-peoples-of-middle-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord of the Rings \u2013 A Book Review \u2013 Part 3 \u2013 The Various Races or Peoples of Middle Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lord of the Rings \u2013 A Book Review \u2013 Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n

The Lord of the Rings \u2013 A Book Review \u2013 Part 2 \u2013 Tolkien\u2019s Creation Story<\/a><\/p>\n

In the Lord of the Rings and his other writings Tolkien speaks of races and peoples to mean what we would call different species.\u00a0 The major division between the Children of Illuvatar was between the Elves and Men (the Eldar and the Edain).\u00a0 Within these two groups there were further subgroupings that I guess could best be described as tribes or nations.\u00a0 But the differences between Elves and Men are profound.\u00a0 The Elves do not grow old.\u00a0 Therefore, unless they are killed by accident or illness they can live indefinitely.\u00a0 And even when they die their spirit is constrained to remain within the Realm of Arda which is under the control of the angelic powers, the Valar.\u00a0 In fact, it is hinted at by Tolkien that eventually the spirits of Elves that have died will be returned to life in Arda after some very long time.\u00a0 Men are mortal just as humans are on Earth.\u00a0 In Tolkien\u2019s theology men do not remain in Arda after they die.\u00a0 Their spirits leave Arda altogether and return to Illuvatar outside of the jurisdiction of the Valar.<\/p>\n

What Tolkien seemed to be mirroring with the Elves and Men was the distinction between men who lived before the Christian era who had no chance of redemption from the Christian perspective and those who lived after.\u00a0 The Elves would be like the Valar in a way.\u00a0 They could serve Illuvatar and share in the smaller creation that was Arda but within Arda they were not in direct contact with Illuvatar.\u00a0 Men were meant to escape Arda after their lives and then return to Illuvatar.\u00a0 Despite the profound differences between Men and Elves Tolkien allowed for the possibility of love and even children between Men and Elves.\u00a0 But what would the children be, deathless Elves or mortal Men? \u00a0Tolkien decided that they would be permitted a choice.\u00a0 If they chose to be Men then that was a final choice for them and their children.\u00a0 But if they chose to be of Elven-kind then their children also had the choice to make and in the same way.\u00a0 Now what this means to me is that any child of a Man would always have the choice to choose to be Human.\u00a0 And I think this is because the Fate of Man is the higher fate.\u00a0 The Elves are halfway between Valar and Men.\u00a0 And despite the tremendous power of the angelic Valar their fate is less than that of Men.<\/p>\n

Then there are the Dwarves.\u00a0 According to the Silmarillion the Dwarves were not created by Illuvatar but instead were the unsanctioned creation of Aul\u00eb, one of the Valar.\u00a0 When Illuvatar spoke to Aul\u00eb about what he had done Aul\u00eb realized that what he had created weren\u2019t independent beings but only shadows of himself, puppets.\u00a0 Aul\u00eb was about to smash them when he saw that Illuvatar had turned them into living beings with souls of their own.\u00a0 This makes the Dwarves sort of adoptive children of Illuvatar.\u00a0 I believe they are like the Elves in being bound to Arda and under the authority of the Valar.\u00a0 And they are odd in other ways and always seem to be at odds with the natural children of Illuvatar.\u00a0 They are not naturally evil but the properties that Aul\u00eb endowed them with put them at odds with Men and Elves.<\/p>\n

The Hobbits are sort of like nature spirits that inhabit English folklore like Puck or Robin Goodfellow but based on Tolkien\u2019s characterization in his books I have to say I believe the Hobbits are human.\u00a0 They are mortal and beside their stature they are in all ways human.\u00a0 Maybe Tolkien intended to make them bound to Arda like the Elves and Dwarves but based on the Hobbits we meet I wouldn\u2019t think they should be left out of human heaven.\u00a0 They\u2019re just too human.<\/p>\n

In the Silmarillion Tolkien tells us that the Orcs were made by Morgoth by capturing Elves and corrupting them through his evil influence.\u00a0 This always made me wonder then if Orcs also did not die of old age.\u00a0 We are never shown any female Orcs which is probably a blessing but I assume they must exist.\u00a0 The idea of a corrupted race is a little hard to understand theologically.\u00a0 For instance, it seems possible that just by chance, an Orc might be born that wasn\u2019t particularly evil.\u00a0 And if he managed to escape the evil influence of his tribe might live a virtuous life.\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard people talk along these lines and mock the idea of \u201cgood Orcs\u201d and based on what we see in the Lord of the Rings it does seem patently ridiculous but since Tolkien was a Christian writer, I\u2019m sure he thought about that possibility.\u00a0 Suffice it to say that no \u201cgood Orcs\u201d ever show up anywhere in the Tolkien tests.<\/p>\n

Dwarves and Elves are pretty standard creatures of Northern European folklore and Tolkien adapted as needed for his use but one of the most original characters that Tolkien place in his Middle Earth was the Ent.\u00a0 They are the \u201cShepherds of the Trees.\u201d\u00a0 They resemble trees.\u00a0 They are gigantic in size and have great physical strength.\u00a0 Their ability to rend stone is compared to a much-accelerated version of the action that roots have for infiltrating and cracking stone that they come in contact with.\u00a0 Ents also appear to live indefinitely unless killed by violence.\u00a0 But they can become senescent and become completely tree-like.\u00a0 It seems that the Ents must be another race of creatures like the Elves that are restricted to Arda forever.\u00a0 But from their description in the Silmarillion, they are never described as Children of Illuvatar.\u00a0 Possibly Tolkien never left any notes about the status of the Ents because he invented them later on than the Elves and Dwarves.\u00a0 Whatever their place in the theology of Middle Earth Tolkien designed them with a distinctive and entertaining character.\u00a0 They are extremely slow and methodical in their actions and extremely long winded in their method of speech.\u00a0 They think of normal action by any other race as extremely hasty.\u00a0 This must be to mimic the immobility and permanence of trees in the landscape.<\/p>\n

And finally, the last of the other major peoples of Middle Earth are the Trolls.\u00a0 Trolls are a well-known creature of legend but how Tolkien fits them into his creation is not well defined.\u00a0 I can remember hearing the explanation that they were Ents that were twisted by Morgoth into evil creatures just as the Elves were turned into Orcs.\u00a0 Honestly this seems singularly unconvincing.\u00a0 There doesn\u2019t seem to be much Ent-like character to Trolls.\u00a0 But I haven\u2019t heard any other explanation so I\u2019ll just leave this as a loose end.\u00a0 In addition to being evil the main character trait of Trolls seems to be stupidity.\u00a0 But they are enormously strong and tough so they come in handy for war scenes when something special is needed.<\/p>\n

Based on the status of the various races of speaking peoples in Middle Earth what it seems is that Tolkien has Christianized the folklore creatures of Norse mythology by giving them a place in the Genesis story of his world, Middle Earth.\u00a0 It is not at all clear what the final status is of the Elves, Dwarves, Ents or even the Orcs and Trolls.\u00a0 They seem to have souls like men and are judged on their deeds, good and evil.\u00a0 But it is far from clear whether even the Elves can gain Paradise in this theology.\u00a0 Instead, they seem to be permanently attached to sub-creation of the Valar, the Kingdom of Arda.\u00a0 And that may be Tolkien\u2019s intention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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