monstres et pitié

[aravanessë]

Je suppose (?) que tu fais référence à cette si fameuse lettre n°131 (que je n'aurais pas relu pour rien au vu de l'usage que j'en ai ces derniers jours ^^) :

VO : But as the earliest Tales are seen through Elvish eyes, as it were, this last great Tale, coming down from myth and legend to the earth, is seen mainly though the eyes of Hobbits: it thus becomes in fact anthropocentric. But through Hobbits, not Men so-called, because the last Tale is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in ‘world polities' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, forgotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless.
VF : Une morale évidente pour l'ensemble [...] serait celle que sans le grand et le noble, le simple et le vulgaire est complètement vain ; et que sans le simple et l'ordinaire, le noble et l’héroïque n'a pas de sens.

Et oui les HoMe sont un passage obligé mais également un pur moment de plaisir : 12 tomes à dévorer, que demande le peuple ?!

aravanessë