“Glad would he have been to know its fate who wrought it slowly long ago', comments the narrator; and his comment shows that the ancient smith was not glad, did not know, was condemned to defeat and death and oblivion in the barrows. Still, even after thousands of years hope should not be lost; nor relied on.” DeathHopeFateDefeatTolkien Author:Tom Shippey
“Man deÞ swa he byÞ Þonne he mot swa he wile, ‘A man does as he is when he can do what he wants’, and what this means is that power reveals character, not that it alters it.” LanguageLord Of The RingsTolkienOld English Book:J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century Source: J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
“One sees ‘Sandyman’s disease’ in an advanced form in Saruman: it starts as intellectual curiosity, develops as engineering skill, turns into greed and the desire to dominate, corrupts further into a hatred and contempt of the natural world which goes beyond any rational desire to use it.” Fantasy FictionLord Of The RingsTolkienSaruman Book:J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century Source: J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
“Sarumans of the real world rule by deluding their followers with images of a technological Paradise in the future, a modernist Utopia; but what one often gets (and this has become only more relevant since Tolkien wrote and since he died) are the blasted landscapes of Eastern Europe, strip-mined, polluted, and even radioactive.” TechnologyLord Of The RingsTolkienSaruman Book:J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century Source: J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
