29-10-2016, 10:06
Je ne sais pas exactement par quel biais, mais il y quelques jours déjà, Charles Ridoux m a envoyé un article que j ai trouvé bien écrit même s il ne contient rien de fondamentalement nouveau. Je ne sais pas s il a été publié ou si c est encore un simple projet. Voici le résumé que Charles lui-même en fait :
« The article is entitled, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium: A Visionary Opus for the Twenty-First Century. Tolkien’soeuvre, conceived and written in the context of a Europe devastated by two world wars, brings with it a message of hope for our times, the fruit of a fertile marriage of European traditions. Tolkien’s critique of modernity does not lead to a call for subversion, but rather an invitation to rediscover the path of traditional values that stems from Europe’s dual heritage, the mythological and the Christian. His work is animated, at the deepest level, by a love of Creation, a profound respect for individual freedom and the refusal to bow down and submit to the machinations of propaganda. This is how Tolkien makes a positive difference to the lives of young people today, in a world under siege from a culture of death and saturated by a morbid aspiration towards the void. In contrast to Islamic State and their ‘Knights of Nihilism’, dressed from head to toe in black, Tolkien offers contemporary society, ravaged as it is by an interior emptiness of soul, a path of ascent towards the light. »
« The article is entitled, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium: A Visionary Opus for the Twenty-First Century. Tolkien’soeuvre, conceived and written in the context of a Europe devastated by two world wars, brings with it a message of hope for our times, the fruit of a fertile marriage of European traditions. Tolkien’s critique of modernity does not lead to a call for subversion, but rather an invitation to rediscover the path of traditional values that stems from Europe’s dual heritage, the mythological and the Christian. His work is animated, at the deepest level, by a love of Creation, a profound respect for individual freedom and the refusal to bow down and submit to the machinations of propaganda. This is how Tolkien makes a positive difference to the lives of young people today, in a world under siege from a culture of death and saturated by a morbid aspiration towards the void. In contrast to Islamic State and their ‘Knights of Nihilism’, dressed from head to toe in black, Tolkien offers contemporary society, ravaged as it is by an interior emptiness of soul, a path of ascent towards the light. »