Some readers never make it through the first seventy pages of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, no matter how hard they try. What Tolkien's trilogy offers to its readers are suggestions as to how some of these problems might be dealt with, and possibly solved. In the trilogy, we are not confronted with the troubles of a distant past, we are, indeed, presented with the issues of today. We might perceive the contents of the trilogy as a description of the collective unconscious of this Era. What interest me is first and foremost the impact of Tolkien's trilogy on the readers' minds. Instead of fx seeing World War II as an allegorical equivalent to The Lord of the Rings, the War, in my opinion, might rather be considered an example of how we are living in a world today in which the Ring has not yet been destroyed. I understand The Lord of the Rings as a symbolic, not allegoric story. His knowledge of ancient myth, legends and fairy tales was enormous, but he took all that material out of their old context and used them for a new purpose. This book is not a psycho-biographical analysis of Tolkien, and either is it a tracing back to the origins of the figures and motives in Tolkien's universe. Jung's theory of archetypes offers an important key to understanding the powerful imagery of Tolkien's masterpiece - and thereby a key to understanding ourselves. I have written this book for readers who love The Lord of the Rings, and for those who would like to read the trilogy, but don't know how to get started. Here follows the introductory part of the book.Ī Jungian Interpretation of Tolkien's The Lord of The Rings. Pia Skogemann's book, Where the Shadows Lie, will be published in August 2009 by Chiron Publications.
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