The Silmarillion
From the letters by J.R.R. Tolkien to Milton Waldman, 1951. Capa da edição brasileira publicada pela editora WMF Martins fontes . “For reasons which I will not elaborate, that seems to me fatal. Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‘real’ world. (I am speaking, of course, o four present situation, not of ancient pagan, pre-Christian days. And I will not repeat what I tried to say in my essay, wich you read)”. Trecho extraído do livro The Silmarillion , p. XI. About Allegory John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. ;) “I dislike Allegory – the conscious and intentional allegory – yet any attempt to explain the support of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language. (And, of course, the more life a story has the more readily will it be susceptible of allegorical interpretations: while the better a deliberate allegory is made the mo