The Significance of the Shire - Community in LotR - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 10-29-2002, 06:08 AM

I was just doing my job, reciting the quaint line of Gaffer Gamgee, "It's an ill wind as blows nobody no good, and all's well as ends better," when it suddenly struck me just how important to the whole story the Gaffer, Lobelia, old Cotton, Proudfoot, and all the rest of them are.

So I'd just like to talk about community in LotR, and what Tolkien achieved with it; was it essential to what makes LotR what it is? If so, why? If not, why not? Why do we like to read about Gaffer Gamgee and listen to the quirky things he says?

10-29-2002, 06:08 AM	#1
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	The Significance of the Shire - Community in LotR I was just doing my job, reciting the quaint line of Gaffer Gamgee, "It's an ill wind as blows nobody no good, and all's well as ends better," when it suddenly struck me just how important to the whole story the Gaffer, Lobelia, old Cotton, Proudfoot, and all the rest of them are. So I'd just like to talk about community in LotR, and what Tolkien achieved with it; was it essential to what makes LotR what it is? If so, why? If not, why not? Why do we like to read about Gaffer Gamgee and listen to the quirky things he says?