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Symbolic Expression in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
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Fascinating Product of Imagination
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"He caught fish ... and ate them raw"
-- of Gollum (Fellowship, p. 63)
Tolkien once wrote, "I find 'dragons' a fascinating product of imagination" (Letters, p. 134).
Much of Tolkien is nothing but this--fascinating products of the imagination. Gollum caught fish with his bare hands "and ate them raw" (Fellowship, p. 63).
A fascinating product of the imagination may be nothing more. Nothing is necessarily expressed in the image.
However, fascinating products of the imagination may go to make up Tolkien's mythological expression of evil and other creations.
In addition, ideas sometimes find expression in the mythological expression of evil and other creations. The ideas influence the images in some way.
At other times, ideas are turned into images, in which case they do not merely find expression but are expressions of something.