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Assim, tem o Deus (Eru), os Ainur, os Valar os Maiar os Istari e os filhos de Eru. (além de outras raças).
Ele se inspirou na Bíblia pra criar a sua Obra?
Ele se inspirou na Bíblia pra criar a sua Obra?
Caro Visitante, por que não gastar alguns segundos e criar uma Conta no Fórum Valinor? Desta forma, além de não ver este aviso novamente, poderá participar de nossa comunidade, inserir suas opiniões e sugestões, fazendo parte deste que é um maiores Fóruns de Discussão do Brasil! Aproveite e cadastre-se já!
Excelente matéria aí: http://www.byrdthistledown.com/Biblical_Parallels_to_The_Silmarillion.htm ( em inglês). Sumariza as principais referências bíblicas no Silmarillion.
...the Blessed Realm in the West, Manwé and Varda Elbereth live atop the tallest of the earth's mountains. Thence, they can survey all of Arda at once. To their snow-white mansion, the Elves send prayers to Elbereth,...
Sauron, maybe the greatest Maia, was at first less evil than his master in that Sauron was evil's servant, not its cause.
Tolkien at first took the Ainur from gods of the mythologies — Celtic, Finnish, Greek, and Norse — that he knew and loved. The Ainur's origin in pagan mythologies accounts for some of their features that contradict the nature of angels in Jewish and Christian Scriptures. For one thing, Scripture never speaks of angels as male and female. Angels get the pronoun "he," but most theologians teach that angels are sexless. Jesus Himself seems to say so: "For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels in heaven" (Matthew 22:30; Mark 12:25; Luke 20:34-36).
For another thing, the Ainur live in earthly mansions, not, like the Bible's angels, in heaven with God. The Ainur's mansions share much with the Olympus of the Greek gods, or the Asgard of the Norse gods. The Halls of Mandos share much with the Greek Hades and the Norse Valhalla.
Still, two of Tolkien's Valar share much with two of the Bible's angels. Manwë, as leader of the forces at war with Morgoth, fills the role of the archangel Michael in fighting Satan for the salvation of God's children (Daniel 10:13,21; 12:1; Jude 1:9; Revelation 12:7-8). Mandos, when, as we shall see, he speaks a prophecy of doom upon the rebel Elves of Valinor, fills the role of the archangel Gabriel as the announcer of God's will (Daniel 8:16-26; 9:20-27; Luke 1:11-20, 26-38).
To Tolkien, a devout Roman Catholic, Varda, as the Queen of Heaven, was one of several of his female characters who draw on the Catholic concept of Blessed Mary Ever-Virgin Mother of God. As Mary's analog, Varda, from a Catholic viewpoint, is an appropriate person to hear prayers. Twice, inThe Lord of the Rings, Elves or Elf-Friends pray to her as the Starmaker. The first time takes place inRivendell, just afterFrodo reaches it, when the Elvish singers sing the hymnÁ Elbereth Gilthoniel. (The song appears in the movie only as background music.) The second time takes place inCirith Ungol, the Spider's Pass, when Frodo calls on Elbereth as he uses the Phial of Galadriel against Shelob.
Tolkien's scholars are unsure of which of his characters fromThe Hobbit andThe Lord of the Ring are Maiar. Sauron and the Balrog certainly are, as are Gandalf,Saruman, Radagast,and the other two Wizards who appear at theGrey Havens in Middle-Earth early in theThird Age. Many seeTom Bombadil ofThe Fellowship of the Ring as a free Maia like Melian.Goldberry, Tom's wife, though, is almost surely aDark Elf.(I'll talk of Dark Elves in a later chapter.)
Still, Tolkien says inThe Silmarillion that an Ainu, even one as great as Melkor or Manwë, cannot truly create anything, and especially cannot give a body sentience. These limitations on Morgoth's power have important implications for the origins of the evil "speaking peoples" of Middle-Earth. Morgoth could not have created intelligent species on his own. Statements inThe Silmarillion andThe Lord of the Rings make it clear that Morgoth madeOrcs by perverting the species of Elves, andTrolls by perverting the species of Ents.
Gods bearing gods and mating with lesser intelligences is a pagan, not a Judeo-Christian, concept. Some, as I said in the last chapter, believe that angels are the sons of God who mated with the daughters of men to father the men of renown, as told in Genesis 6:1-2, 4. Those who believe so, I ask, "Why would angels, who are deathless ministering spirits of flaming fire (Psalm 104:1-5), be able to reproduce, or do so with man, whom God formed from the dust of the ground (Genesis 2:7)?" Oddly enough, however, the account of creation in Genesis 1-2 says nothing of man's bringing forth seed after his own kind.
If so, Smaug, the Dragon of The Hobbit, is also a Maia.
III. THE SPRINGTIME OF ARDA
You might draw a parallel between Tolkien's four categories of Elves -- the Unwilling, those who turn aside, those who delay, and those who are faithful -- with the four categories of hearers of the Word of whom Jesus speaks in the Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13:3-9, 18-13). Please don't try, though, to push too far the parallels between the Elves' journey to Valinor and the Jews' journey to Canaan. Although the Elves do cross a great sea to get to their promised land, that sea differs from the Red Sea that the Children of Israel cross to theirs. Ulmo, with his island-ship, is certainly not Moses with his staff (Exodus 14-15).
The story of Elwë Thingol and Melian is not Biblical in origin. This story comes from a number of Celtic tales of a mortal man who goes into a wood and gets entangled there with a beautiful Elfmaid. Tolkien changes Celtic tradition by getting an Elflord entangled with an angel. There are likely no Sunday-school lessons in the tale of Thingol and Melian beyond that their love is fruitless as long as they're totally absorbed in each other. Only when they rejoin society as husband and wife does their love bear fruit in a family and a kingdom.
The tale is important, however, for the rest of Tolkien's mythology. Thingol and Melian become the parents of Lúthien Tinúviel, the most beautiful of Elfmaids, with whom the mortal warriorBerenfalls in love. He wins her hand only after a terrible trial, and with her begets the ancestor of Elrond, Arwen, and Aragorn.
Aragorn's love for Arwen echos Beren's love for Lúthien. In both loves, the mortal Man must achieve a seemingly hopeless quest to win the immortal maiden's hand, and the immortal maiden must give up her Elvish nature to wed the mortal Man. To make the echo stronger, Aragorn, escorting four Hobbits to Rivendell, sings them a song of Beren and Lúthien. If you've seen the movie ofThe Lord of the Rings,but not read the book, please get the book so that you can read "The Tale of Tinúviel" done properly. The movie doesn't do this scene justice. As we'll see, the two love stories have numerous Biblical parallels.
In the terrible pass of Cirith Ungol where Shelob was waiting, Sam Gamgee would see the connection of his own quest with that of the Silmarils when he said to Frodo, "But that's a long tale, of course, and goes on past the happiness and into grief and beyond it — and the Silmaril went on and came toEärendil. And why, sir, I never thought of that before! We've got — you've got some of the light of it in that star-glass that the Lady [Galadriel] gave you! Why, to think of it, we're in the same tale still! It's going on. Don't the great tales ever end?"
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