He created a whole universe, complete with different languages, races,geography, flora, fauna etc. I think he was but other people will tell you he was just a good story-teller. What do you think
2006-07-16 04:32:04 · 24 answers · asked by Rhapsody 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
sorry about the type-o. I am a good speller otherwise.... I am!
2006-07-16 05:46:07 · update #1
i think he is brillant. and also a genius.
2006-07-16 04:36:13 · answer #1 · answered by babygal7772002 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and yes?
He was a good story teller pulling you into his universe to the point that you could imagine this was just a piece of history. Fact not fiction...
However it was because he was a genius that he was able to do this. Many people write books about elves, aliens and other non-humans, most do not create languages. He created the languages in detail, with pronunciation, spelling, writing and more.
He created new beings, their lives, their history, their language, their writing. Many people when they hear Hobbit, they picture underground homes, unshod feet with hair, pipes, and simple life. Why? He created the image of their lives.
And it has been his writings that have influenced now generations of writers on the ways and lives of elves, dwarfs, goblins and wizards.
If I were to have the "dinner with anyone through history" I probably would choose him. As a want to be writer I admire him.
2006-07-16 11:54:36 · answer #2 · answered by mj_schrader 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well he was a professor of languages at Oxford university. I would assume anyone who is a Professor at oxford is probably a genius. He thought up the languages and overall story line while recovering in the hospital from war injuries after WWI so you take someone with an extremely high IQ and love of languages and put them in a hospital bed with a lot of time and the lord of the rings id what comes out
PS it genius ...not genious
2006-07-16 11:45:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He didn't created that whole universe. In fact, there is an explainatin about where his world came from. So, no, he was not a genius in the sense that innovators are. A darn fine story teller, though.
2006-07-17 17:37:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not saying anything about your spelling. Okay, I believe J.R.R. Tolkien was a genius, hands down. He is such a genius, I don't understand a word he says in his books. As a storyteller, I'm not sure, I have difficulty understanding The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I tried reading them once and I wound up scratching my head and saying, "Huh?"
2006-07-16 14:59:52 · answer #5 · answered by Opinion Girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course the man was a genious. LOTR is a brilliant piece of work. But for the created languages. They are borrowed from actual historical languages. The Runic language is from a form of greek characters as the elven language is was developed from arabic/hebrew.
2006-07-16 11:56:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes,tolkien was a genius: what other author was written a story with as much detail and imagination? the depth of the plot-line and history,and languages,and alphabets,and goelogy,ect. ect. is and always will be unequaled. this is why the literary guild voted it THE book of the 20th century. jk rowling should never be spoken in the same sentance as proffesor tolkien!
2006-07-16 12:27:58 · answer #7 · answered by scottmartinthegreat 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He had to be a genius to create all of those different languages, I can't even learn one besides English. Let alone the history of the middle earth, and so forth and whatever. There are not many authors who get so in depth with their books, even the series.
2006-07-16 15:12:30 · answer #8 · answered by santana84_02 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think he was very smart and creative, but he did "borrow" a helluva lot of language and traditions from the Celts and Vikings. IMO he took 2 or 3 puzzles and re-used the pieces to form a new picture, but there's no denying he added his own flavour to things. What could any of us come up with if we spent that amount of time on it?
2006-07-17 05:08:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We all are on some level. Tolkien was highly intelligent and had a huge imagination. He had in sight on what hit a cord in the human soul. That is why his stories as last this long and why they still draw fans.
2006-07-16 21:04:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that for one to create a language as Tolkien did, he was indeed a genius... as well as a great story-teller.
2006-07-16 11:38:08 · answer #11 · answered by caedenbear 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋