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Tolkien was deeply Catholic. Although he does not show mountains or show water, but from his own early family influence (born in South Africa), he experienced the horrific World War I, and he reflects in his writings a figure like the devotion of Jesus.
Gandalf is the closest one. Also Frodo, Aragorn. For the sake of the whole world, they stood up bravely and were willing to sacrifice themselves. Aragorn lived a long life of self-imposed exile. During the Battle of Smaug, Legolas was also an ascetic. Seeing Geluoying's family photo, he also pretended to be contemptuous.
But paradoxically, Tolkien's lifelong ambition was precisely to reflect a medieval epic, like the Anglo-Saxon epic, before the influence of Christianity, like Beowulf.
So I want to propose a concept of "simulation". Realism, that's the hallmark of Tolkien's work. Christianity is also an imitation. Remember Elvish? How much effort did it take for him as a linguist? Because this simulation also greatly improves the WeChat of this work.
The world of wood elves and the world of humans are also very realistic. They both follow the hierarchy of British society in the 19th century, which is like a caste nation. Fry is fat and stupid, surrounded by flattering villains. And the king of the wood elves is greedy
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The dragon guards the wealth, isn't that the Nibelung ring?
Elibor, the city of dwarves, is full of gold and silver treasures, as well as various secret colors of gold and silver, which is the ancient glory of the dwarves. Jackson created such a world, and watching people have oily eyes, somehow you understand the king of dwarves, and their greed is natural.
I think Tolkien must have thought so: If there is no dragon to guard the gold and silver treasures, then such an epic must be incomplete.
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