tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post2893122859689716588..comments2024-03-11T16:29:13.619-05:00Comments on Lingwë - Musings of a Fish: Another analog to the Doors of DurinJason Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05809154870762268253noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post-5993671161555841562019-02-22T01:56:46.389-06:002019-02-22T01:56:46.389-06:00+3 think you are on the right path.
Williams and...+3 think you are on the right path. <br />Williams and Lewis were obsessed with George MacDonald and likely tried to convince Tolers that the secret key was in George MacDonalds Ex Libra stamp (the one of a stone door with writing carved into it, inspired/stole/borrowed from William Blake I believe, who did it of a classical section of myth). Doors in tend to be so hard to find without the key. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post-81708361294580673972019-02-22T01:52:35.300-06:002019-02-22T01:52:35.300-06:00machine learn it (ie recursive till quickly valida...machine learn it (ie recursive till quickly validated)<br />Question then becomes if this type of iconography existed in multiple forms which ones would Tolkien have come across (or most likely). Because if there is an example that meets the ocalms razor minimum threshold then we might get unique insights to why whomever drew the door on the RBoW (or why Tolers drew it that way if he wants to take credit for his masterpiece:). Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post-61675855300310351132013-05-05T22:00:41.442-05:002013-05-05T22:00:41.442-05:00Williams apparently visited Oxford for occasional ...Williams apparently visited Oxford for occasional Inklings meetings during the 1936-39 period when he was still in London, so Tolkien probably met him at that time. He was certainly already aware of Lewis's interest in Williams, having (according to a letter by Lewis to Williams) read <i>The Place of the Lion</i> at Lewis's suggestion - whatever his private thoughts on the matter.David Bratmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08090662884600828582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post-7412058602947588742013-05-01T07:02:57.291-05:002013-05-01T07:02:57.291-05:00I agree, these coincidences are fascinating.
If ...I agree, these coincidences <i>are</i> fascinating. <br /><br />If someone would wish to claim that this or a similar image was a source for Tolkien's envisioning and drawing of the Doors of Durin, I should think that the main problem would be to eliminate all other possible sources of similar (or greater) likelihood — there would have to be quite a bit of digging to be fairly sure to cover at least the most likely possibilities (both in terms of putting it near Tolkien and in terms of similarity to Tolkien's image). Troelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07515711722551393026noreply@blogger.com