Tolkien

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Tolkien only in connection with The Lord of the Rings, and almost always in passing, to place the work in relation to its sources. He first sees it as a borrowing from Germanic mythology, from which "everything" is said to be taken1. Above all he links it to Wagner, in stronger or weaker terms depending on the session: Tolkien supposedly "took everything" from Wagner2, drew something from the Ring3, or takes up the same Germanic stories as Wagner4. In a session devoted to Götterdämmerung, he notes that Tolkien popularized the motif of the ring that gives power over the world5. He also compares The Lord of the Rings to Star Wars, for the parts that tell what happened before the story begins6. Tolkien thus serves as a reference point in his reflections on Wagner and on how mythical narratives are passed on in popular culture.

1. 1#4.8 Angélique (de Nerval)16 May 2018 · 42:24
2. 2Préface au mémoire de Simon Verdun, « La critique du néokantisme chez Michel Clouscard », soutenue à l’ENS DE Paris, sanctionnée par une mention très bien.5 Jul 2018 · 46:57
3. 39 #12 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?14 Jan 2021 · 2:17
4. 4L’éternel retour… des camps de la mort ?13 Oct 2024 · 0:00
5. 59 #19 Le Crépuscule des dieux ou de la répétition à la libération • Partie 214 Apr 2021 · 6:05
6. 69 #15 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?18 Feb 2021 · 43:52

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.