Loukas Christodoulou on Nostr: In a 1954 letter Tolkien writes about the Entwives. "Some, of course, may have fled ...
In a 1954 letter Tolkien writes about the Entwives.
"Some, of course, may have fled east, or even have been enslaved: tyrants even in such tales must have an economic and agricultural background to their soldiers and metalworkers. If any survived so, they would indeed be far estranged from the Ents, and any rapprochement would be difficult - unless experience of industrialized and militarized agriculture had made them a little more anarchic. I hope so. I don't know."
"Some, of course, may have fled east, or even have been enslaved: tyrants even in such tales must have an economic and agricultural background to their soldiers and metalworkers. If any survived so, they would indeed be far estranged from the Ents, and any rapprochement would be difficult - unless experience of industrialized and militarized agriculture had made them a little more anarchic. I hope so. I don't know."