The ability of writing to reflect every reader’s experience is more important to Tolkien than any allegorical meaning (Beal 6). (Beal 5)Īn allegory, if too direct, can take away some of the personal experience of reading. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author. I much prefer history – true or feigned – with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. Tolkien disagreed with the practice of allegory for the most part as he states in a forward to the Fellowship of the Rings: She is a senior in high school and gave permission to her father, regular blogger Jesse Hake, to post this paper that she wrote for a school assignment. Author note: we are grateful for this post by guest blogger Nessa Hake.
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