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Dan Minette wrote: > >I give JRR a great deal of leeway because he deliberately wrote an ancient >legend, with different types of beings in it. Thus, a Jeffersonian >democracy would really have been out of place. > Uh? But a democracy is _exactly_ what we see evolving in the Shire. There are three important hobbits in The Fellowship, and each one of them represents one kind of power. Frodo is the plutocracy, because he inherited the fabulous fortune of his uncle Bilba - so rich, that he had one piece of armor that had the price of the whole Shire. Merry is the aristocracy, since he is the son of the head of a _very_ powerful family, that controlled 1/4 of the Shire. And Pippin is the clergy - his father the Took represents the King in the same position as the Steward of Gondor, so that Pippin can address Denethor with the same tone that he addressed his own father [because they were _equals_!] to he astonishment of the people of Minas Tirith. But look at the appendixes. Who rules the Shire after Frodo leaves? The servant, the son of the gardener. >Further, the effort of >inventing a history and a language was rather amazing. > Tolkien's development of the languages was really amazing. There are hidden puns through all LotR, that can only be glimpsed when we take into account the languages. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
