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JRR Tolkien on how WW1 inspired The Lord of the Rings | BBC Global

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If you really come down to any large story, interest people, hold them attention for a considerable time, or or make story is practically always a human story. Is PR always about one thing, aren't they? Death, the inevitability of death. I don't know would you would agree with that, but anyway, that is what um I there was a quotation from SIM B I read in the paper that the other day, which seems to me put in a nut jumy. I think I'll read it to him. This is appr propo the untimely death of U of musical composer who I've myself always been extremely fond, karia Viba, who died 39 them tuberculosis. And the man who written his um his actually quotes these words of sim: "There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that happens to man is ever natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjust violation."

You may agree words or not, but those are the keypr of the laws of the Ring. People do not fully understand the difference between an allegory and an application. You can go to a Shakespeare play and you can apply it to things in your mind if you like, but they're not Alor. At least most of them not. There more allegoric frences in the The Tempest than the most. But but suddenly, I mean, many people apply to a nuclear the ring to particular the nuclear bomb, don't they? I think that that was in my mind is the whole thing is not an allegory of it, but it isn't.

I first began seriously to invent languages about I was 13 or 14. I've never stopped really. Languages have a flavor to me which I never understand people saying saying for was awfully dry and D because a new language to me is just like taking a new wine or a new sweet beit or something. What I'm doing now is to try and write in Elish. I'm my writing is very in theory to the El a standard greeting when meeting a star shines upon our meeting, and that's stands for Ellen Sila Lumen or M ELO. It's it's rather beautiful language. I I wouldn't mind other people knowing it and enjoying it, but I didn't really want to like some people who been equally inventive in language have done who want to make Cults and have people all speaking it together. No, I don't desire to go and have afternoons talking Elish to Jabs. One thing, course, Elish is too complicated. I've never finished making it.