thread: 2005-07-05 : Setting and Source Material
On 2005-07-12, Sydney Freedberg wrote:
And perhaps the Southrons thing would work because you have1 - seed crystal: a few strong images of what they are and do in a specific context, i.e. their wars with Gondor, that are suggestive but leave a lot open and undefined
2 - rules, albeit implicit: a strong sense of how Tolkein's world works intuited from reading everything else (e.g. "the world is not what it once was" and "mortals were created good but fall into evil"—which are, I bet, intuitively underlying J's suggestion that "Maybe the Southrons or Easterlings weren't always evil, and their fall was tragic and heroic.")
