15-01-2004, 03:12
Petite erreur : Tolkien est moins présomptueux au sujet de la guérison dans une de ses lettres :
[citation=Letter 246 From a letter to Mrs Eileen Elgar (drafts) september 1963 (p.328)]Frodo was sent or allowed to pass over Sea to heal him - if that could be done, before he died. He would have enventually to 'pass away' : no mortal could, or can, abide for ever on earth, or within Time. So he went both to a purgatory and to a reward, for a while : a period of reflection and peace and a gaining of a true understanding of his position in littleness and in greatness, spent still in Time amid the natural beauty of 'Arda Unmarred', the Earth unspoiled by evil.[/citation]
[citation=Letter 246 From a letter to Mrs Eileen Elgar (drafts) september 1963 (p.328)]Frodo was sent or allowed to pass over Sea to heal him - if that could be done, before he died. He would have enventually to 'pass away' : no mortal could, or can, abide for ever on earth, or within Time. So he went both to a purgatory and to a reward, for a while : a period of reflection and peace and a gaining of a true understanding of his position in littleness and in greatness, spent still in Time amid the natural beauty of 'Arda Unmarred', the Earth unspoiled by evil.[/citation]