Tales and spiritual reality (3)

First musings: Lord of the rings

The two previous posts in this theme were more coherent. Now follow some more free flow ideas.

First, Lord of the Rings. The author, J.R.R. Tolkien, wanted to create a new mythology for the British Isles. His writings were inspired by other mythologies and sagas, like Beowulf, the Edda’s and the Finnish Kalevala. His broader mythology, written down in The Silmarillion, tells about how the world was created through song, how the (middle) earth existed long before the sun and the moon (anthroposophists may recognise this), and how a big part of the world disappeared under the sea. In two stages even.

This latter part brings up suggestions to Atlantis, the continent that existed about 10.000 years ago. One Dutch author (I have to find his writings back) suggests/researched that what happens inside, especially the Lord of the Rings, was a retelling of events happening during the long existence of the Atlantic continent.

This author suggests that what Tolkien wrote did happen. The orcs that were fought were old root races (a somewhat Theosophic insight/idea of human races before our current stage). The elves are angels behind on their development, who are finishing their development. The Hobbits are breath beings, the spiritual beings that will follow up humanity. Steiner apparently alludes about these beings.

I’m not sure about all this, but I find it alluring. Everything would be far less solid, would have happened in a far less materialistic form than both the books and certainly the movies tell. Humans were fully clairvoyant then, and most of it could have happened in the etheric spheres instead of on the physical plane.

It’s a deep dive, and feels somewhat speculative.