There is a particular story written by him which is very interesting to me, and that is the creation of the world. In the beginning, there was nothing except Eru Ilúvatar (a.k.a "The One"), who is the one true mighty God of all Tolkien's mythology. Then he created from his thoughts the Ainur (the "Holy Ones") , who are spirits very close to christian Angels, and he asked them to sing a great song known as "The Song of the Ainur". The song produced a vision of how the Universe could look if it would exist, and the Ainur were so amazed by this vision that they wanted to make this vision true. Eru then created the Universe (called Eä) for them by using the Secret Fire, creating Arda (our world), and he asked them to help shaping our world and all the living things. But there was one Ainur named Melkor, who at the moment of singing the Song, he sang in a disrespectful way. Melkor then tried to rule the newly formed Arda and he arose as the absolut Evil Lord.
The Ainur took material form, and they became in the Valar and the Maiar, who fought against Melkor and defeated him. They imprisioned Melkor for thousands of years while Eru directly created what are called "the first sons of Eru", the Elves and after lots of wars and other importan facts (such as the arise of the Sun and the Moon), the second sons of Eru, the Men, were created.
I find that Tolkin had truly a great imagination, and his tales are so rich and full of details. It is simple amazing! He even created full languages, which I think it must be extremely complicated at least. Anyway, if you want to find out more about this story or other stories of Tolkien's world, I invite you to read The Silmarillion, a book in which Tolkien explain a lot of things, truly necessary and recommendable if you want to know more about The Lord of the Rings story.
It's really interesting the story, I really enjoyed it...I thing the Tolkien's mythology is really huge,a huge world.
ResponderEliminarother interesting myths about the creation of the world, the Greek myth, maybe you already know it =) <3