Classical Tolkien
In the classical Ronald Reul Tolkien(1892-1973) isn’t reference to the fairy tables that he has took from his mother, but classical affinity that evidently he has interpreted in his literary works, the first is the myth of Arcadia, when in the Lord of rings, he describes the Hobbit seems minded to Arcadia myth: “regard to Hobbit in the county, they were, during peace and wealth, a people very happy, they wear with colors lively cloth, and they preferred the yellow and green and the haven’t shoes, because their feet were cover to hair…thereupon the unique work was the fabrication of shoes, to historical art men is automatic the reference to Giovan Francesco Barbieri called the Guercino(1591-1666), Italian painter that painted In Arcadian ego(Fig.1), this is the death is also in Arcadian, thereby this magic town isn’t alone illusion, because my sickle is also here; likewise are illusions the poetical idylls of Theocritus(315 b.Ch-260 b.Ch.), whose works are very fragmentary, but very meaningful to this myth: when Tirsi said “It is suave the whisper of the pine that rustles to source, but it is suave also your song from rods. You are going to have the second premium after Pan…The kinship that joins to Hobbit is evident and more stringent than that joins to elves or dwarves…”; therefore other reference to ancient literature is in the following words: “The love to study is very scarn diffused but some member of ancient families that studied the books of family and together chronicle about past times and about longer towns…”, it is evident that in Ancient Greece Homer was also read, as today, and a legendary past time, as Troy war, was present; as the idylls of Theocritus that is referred to uncertain and fantastic times. Other matter is the long march: “To their chronicles…and even the older legends are from epoch of the Long March…”, we can think that this step is took directly from Thucydides because he has told about the march of Doric people from north to Greek with Heraclids, descendent from Hercules; this dynamic people is very specular to the march of migration toward Greek, that alone Thucydides told. The physic of Sturoi is robust and lower; the Doric people because they must be clever in fights they were trained with physical exercise; Tolkien gone in Italy three times and he, during his voyage could see some Roman ancient sculpture, and he could take the figure of Sturoi from the sculpture of Tetrarchs, sculpture high alone 4,36 feet; herself said that the Italy has given much suggest to his works, therefore he has took from imagines and history ancient and modern, because the name of Bilbo has given, may, the name to Bilbo Beggins, personage of Lord of rings, but the Bilbo was also the sword that used the Hispanic soldiers during end of 16th century, and the lands that were joined in years 1462: "The land of Buck and the occidental borders that were in to the County in 1462", this is indirect reference to discovery of American continent, in 1492. This is a step philosophical step of Epicurus that through the ataraxia has took the distance from common desire of wealth and extreme pleasure, this is interior equilibrium necessary to life; and other reference to ancient Greek is this step: “The Hobbit attributed to ancient king every right laws and the followed it because the rules ancient and right”; it is Sparta, rival city of Athens that attributed to Lycurgus every laws of city and the military order. I think that Tolkien has took much sources, he has joined it and other is literature, to mention Boudlaire.
Alessandro Lusana
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