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Elentári
Q nf: ᴹQ elen (Ak elān • cf Sk रोक, स्वर्; G ἥλιος, ἀστήρ) + ᴹQ tári (Ak tarû • cf Ak Ištar, Sk जनि): a title of Varda as the maker of the stars.
Why not The Lady of the Rings instead of The Lord of the Rings? It would appear quite debatable whether or not these two titles would have achieved equal popularity, at least within Tolkien's socio-historical context. The virtual lack of any exquisitely negative anthropomorphic female main character — the only authentic malefemmine (female villains) being indeed arachnomorphic — in Tolkien's legendarium (as in the doctrinal corpus of the christian religion) has led to speculate on basically idealized moral human models in which most, though not all women — cfr the undescribed female southrons and orcresses — are willingly choosing to embrace good and reject evil, rather than lacking the sheer will or the mere ability of evil actions, words and thoughts, if not as an unconscious reflex of men's, as in a sexist/misogynistic perspective. Tolkien himself, anyway, expressly disclaimed¹ any responsibility arising from each/every arbitrary decontextualization, abusive extrapolation and non-literary (e.g. political-religious) interpretation of his literary works.
NOTES
1. J.R.R. Tolkien 1954: LOTR, pp. XVIII-XXI, 350-351.
REFERENCES
R. Minutolo 2024: Battle of Pelennor Fields.
M.F. Gervais 2024: Middle-earth legendarium family tree.
R. Lehoucq & al. 2021: Middle-earth science.
J.R.R. Tolkien 2021: Middle-earth nature.
W.S. Judd & G.A. Judd 2017: Middle-earth flora.
Reddit 2017: Eagles of Middle-earth in the War of the Ring.
G. de Turris & al. 2016: Dizionario dell'universo di J.R.R. Tolkien.
K. Larsen 2007: Influence of Tolkien on modern science.
B. Bates 2002: The real Middle-earth.
J.R.R. Tolkien 1977: The Silmarillion.
J.R.R. Tolkien 1937: The Hobbit.
Quenta Silmarillion Eldalambenen • Eagles in Middle-earth • WHL0137-LS
Elentári
Q nf: ᴹQ elen (Ak elān • cf Sk रोक, स्वर्; G ἥλιος, ἀστήρ) + ᴹQ tári (Ak tarû • cf Ak Ištar, Sk जनि): a title of Varda as the maker of the stars.
Why not The Lady of the Rings instead of The Lord of the Rings? It would appear quite debatable whether or not these two titles would have achieved equal popularity, at least within Tolkien's socio-historical context. The virtual lack of any exquisitely negative anthropomorphic female main character — the only authentic malefemmine (female villains) being indeed arachnomorphic — in Tolkien's legendarium (as in the doctrinal corpus of the christian religion) has led to speculate on basically idealized moral human models in which most, though not all women — cfr the undescribed female southrons and orcresses — are willingly choosing to embrace good and reject evil, rather than lacking the sheer will or the mere ability of evil actions, words and thoughts, if not as an unconscious reflex of men's, as in a sexist/misogynistic perspective. Tolkien himself, anyway, expressly disclaimed¹ any responsibility arising from each/every arbitrary decontextualization, abusive extrapolation and non-literary (e.g. political-religious) interpretation of his literary works.
NOTES
1. J.R.R. Tolkien 1954: LOTR, pp. XVIII-XXI, 350-351.
REFERENCES
R. Minutolo 2024: Battle of Pelennor Fields.
M.F. Gervais 2024: Middle-earth legendarium family tree.
R. Lehoucq & al. 2021: Middle-earth science.
J.R.R. Tolkien 2021: Middle-earth nature.
W.S. Judd & G.A. Judd 2017: Middle-earth flora.
Reddit 2017: Eagles of Middle-earth in the War of the Ring.
G. de Turris & al. 2016: Dizionario dell'universo di J.R.R. Tolkien.
K. Larsen 2007: Influence of Tolkien on modern science.
B. Bates 2002: The real Middle-earth.
J.R.R. Tolkien 1977: The Silmarillion.
J.R.R. Tolkien 1937: The Hobbit.
Quenta Silmarillion Eldalambenen • Eagles in Middle-earth • WHL0137-LS