Greek Mythology: J. R. R. Tolkien And His Work

Greek mythology: J. R. R. Tolkien and his work

Introduction.

Greek mythology is stories that are part of a certain religion or culture or can also be known as cultural narratives or expressions of a sacred origin. Myths are known as stories, which are based on legend and tradition, which were created to explain the universe, with all its origins and thus get to understand it, it must be taken into account that not all myths have an explanatory function.

Developing.

In many cases mythology appears in most religions such as Greek, Roman mythology and Scandinavian mythology. Although it seems that most people relate mythology to religion, it is not so in all cases, for example: television series, books and comics manage to form their own fictional universe, since they obtain very important mythological components, they can even givePlace to the philosophical system.

A clear example of this type of mythology is J. R. R. Tolkien (writer, poet, philologist, linguist and university professor known mainly for being the author of the classic heroic fantasy novels) among his books The Lord of the Rings. This work was developed by the author as an exploration of the interests he had in philosophy and religion (particularly in Catholicism), fairy tales and mythology, mainly the Nordic. In this work Tolkien created a very detailed and fictional universe, as well as incorporated important figures of the Catholic Church such as Cardinal Newman, they considered that mythology is fully compatible with Christianity, as if it were a prequel in the same way asThe Old Testament is.

Conclusions.

Tolkien described this work as a fundamental religious and Catholic work. The novel also includes issues in which death and immortality, mercy and piety, resurrection, salvation, repentance, sacrifice, will, justice, companionship, authority and healing are incorporated. 

In addition, the prayer of our Father (do not let us fall into temptation and deliver us from evil) was present in Tolkien’s mind when he described Frodo’s struggle against the power of the unique ring. It is also worth emphasizing that Tolkien’s work identifies structures that manifest characteristics of typical oral stories in other texts such as the Bible or the Koran. It also designs formulas to use the memory by going to functional architects in culture,