Tolkien was human right?

[eowyntje]

I just have to bring this up. I don't know if its been discussed before, but I couldn't find any topic on it.

I think that on this forum and many other lotr forums, The Lord of the Rings and other works are often approached the way medieval scientists approached the bible. Those scientists found that the bible raised questions, because not everything seemed to make sence, so they talked and talked about it until they had found a somewhat sensible explanation for this seemingly illogical thing. They wanted the bible to make sence no matter what. In a way, I think that is the way a lot of people approach Tolkien's works. When we find somehting strange or illogical, a possible flaw, something irrational that doesn't fit, we talk and talk and talk until we find some explanation for it, some reason why this seemingly stranget hing might make sence. The suggestion that it might not make sence, and might be a flaw, is never mentioned.

It seems to me that we are approaching Tolkiens writings as if they are perfect, and can not be anything else then perfect, as if Tolkien himself was a God and could not create annything imperfect. Shouldn't we accept that Tolkien was human and therefor made mistakes? We sometimes seem to overlook that anyone, even Tolkien, would make mistakes when writing thousand and thousands of pages. So here's my suggestion: maybe, just maybe, Tolkien has flaws. And maybe, who knows, he might have overlooked something, he might have made something illogical happen or let someone in his stories do something which did not make sence because it fit his story. Maybe, just maybe he might have said something about middle earth in the Lord of the Rings, but the oposite in the Silmarilion, who knows.

I'm a devoted fan of The Lord of the Rings and of Tolkien, but I think that when discussing his work, we should sometimes take the possibility of flaws into consideration, and we often don't.

just an idea

Eowyntje.