How Tolkien Presents Ordinary People in "The Silmarillion"
Inspired by collecting the prompts for the SWG's Everyman challenge, this essay considers how ordinary people are subsumed and silenced in The Silmarillion, which begins a three-book arc that ends with the rise of the humble and ordinary.
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