08-12-2005, 09:18
Je sais que je n'ai strictement rien à faire ici, pardonnez donc mon intrusion... mais une chose m'intrigue.
[citation=J.R.R. Tolkien, <i>Smith of Wooton Major</i>, extended edition, ed. By Verlyn Flieger, éd. Harper Collins, 2005]BUT Faery is <i>not</i> religious. It is fairly evident that it is not Heaven or Paradise. Certainly its inhabitants, Elves, are not angels or emissaries of God (direct). The tale does not deal with religion itself. The Elves are not busy with a plan to reawake religious devotion in Wootton. The Cooking allegory would not be suitable to any such import. Faery represents at its weakest a breaking out (at last in mind) from the iron ring of the familiar, still more from the adamantine ring of belief that is known, possessed, controlled, and so (ultimately) all that is worth being considered — a constant awareness of a world beyond these rings. More strongly it represents love: that is, a love and respect for all things, 'inanimate' and 'animate', an unpossessive love of them as 'other'. This 'love' will produce both ruth and delight. Things seen in its light will be respected, and they will also appear delightful, beautiful, wonderful even glorious. Faery might be said indeed to represent Imagination (without definition beacause taking in all the definition of this world): esthetic: exploratory and receptive; and artistic; inventive, dynamic, (sub)creative. This compound — of awareness of a limitless world outside our domestic parish; a love (in ruth and admiration) for the things in it; and a desire for wonder, marvels, both perceived and conceived — this 'Faery' is as necessary for the health and complete functioning of the Human as is sunlight for physical life: sunlight as distinguished from the soil, say, though in fact permeated and modifies even that.[/citation]
Les exergues de la première phrase ne sont pas de moi, mais de Tolkien himself.
Je trouvais ça bien, moi... aller au-delà des querelles de clocher, toucher à cet idéal de Bonté et Beauté, d'amour de l'autre et d'émerveillement... qui, je le maintiens, le pense et l'affirme, existe (peut exister du moins) chez tout homme, qu'il soit ou non d'une confession quelle qu'elle soit. Et (mais ce n'est que mon opinion de jeune personne sans doute idéaliste) je pense que c'est cela que Tolkien voulait faire vibrer (c'est pour ça que cette conclusion m'a tant plu), cet état d'esprit qu'il voulait induire : non pas convertir à quoi que ce soit, mais montrer que le monde, en dépit de tout, est source d'émerveillement, que le respect et l'amour, "outside our domestic parish", sont la clé de l'épanouissement de l'Homme. <br>Mais encore une fois, ce n'est que mon interprétation, n'allez pas me jeter d'enclume :)
S. -- <small>repart sur la pointe des pieds...</small>
[citation=J.R.R. Tolkien, <i>Smith of Wooton Major</i>, extended edition, ed. By Verlyn Flieger, éd. Harper Collins, 2005]BUT Faery is <i>not</i> religious. It is fairly evident that it is not Heaven or Paradise. Certainly its inhabitants, Elves, are not angels or emissaries of God (direct). The tale does not deal with religion itself. The Elves are not busy with a plan to reawake religious devotion in Wootton. The Cooking allegory would not be suitable to any such import. Faery represents at its weakest a breaking out (at last in mind) from the iron ring of the familiar, still more from the adamantine ring of belief that is known, possessed, controlled, and so (ultimately) all that is worth being considered — a constant awareness of a world beyond these rings. More strongly it represents love: that is, a love and respect for all things, 'inanimate' and 'animate', an unpossessive love of them as 'other'. This 'love' will produce both ruth and delight. Things seen in its light will be respected, and they will also appear delightful, beautiful, wonderful even glorious. Faery might be said indeed to represent Imagination (without definition beacause taking in all the definition of this world): esthetic: exploratory and receptive; and artistic; inventive, dynamic, (sub)creative. This compound — of awareness of a limitless world outside our domestic parish; a love (in ruth and admiration) for the things in it; and a desire for wonder, marvels, both perceived and conceived — this 'Faery' is as necessary for the health and complete functioning of the Human as is sunlight for physical life: sunlight as distinguished from the soil, say, though in fact permeated and modifies even that.[/citation]
Les exergues de la première phrase ne sont pas de moi, mais de Tolkien himself.
Je trouvais ça bien, moi... aller au-delà des querelles de clocher, toucher à cet idéal de Bonté et Beauté, d'amour de l'autre et d'émerveillement... qui, je le maintiens, le pense et l'affirme, existe (peut exister du moins) chez tout homme, qu'il soit ou non d'une confession quelle qu'elle soit. Et (mais ce n'est que mon opinion de jeune personne sans doute idéaliste) je pense que c'est cela que Tolkien voulait faire vibrer (c'est pour ça que cette conclusion m'a tant plu), cet état d'esprit qu'il voulait induire : non pas convertir à quoi que ce soit, mais montrer que le monde, en dépit de tout, est source d'émerveillement, que le respect et l'amour, "outside our domestic parish", sont la clé de l'épanouissement de l'Homme. <br>Mais encore une fois, ce n'est que mon interprétation, n'allez pas me jeter d'enclume :)
S. -- <small>repart sur la pointe des pieds...</small>