Lud In The Mist Analysis

Lud in the Mist shows many aspects of recovery as viewed in Tolkien’s “On Fairy Stories.” A basic example of this would be the appearance of fairy fruit and the note. These objects are not human elements, but similar to Tolkien’s “On Fairy Stories” he claims recovery is “seeing things as they are” is not something to see as a part of themselves. Nathaniel sees the note as a piece of himself. The note changed him as a person and brought on a gloom that lasted throughout the rest of his life. While Nat’s son, Ranulph, ate the fairy fruit and his experience did not alter his outlook on life, but it did alter how he acted temporarily. However, the main concept in which “seeing things as they are” is more noticeable is in the element of death that is within Lud in the Mist. Tolkien sees recovery as a regaining of a clear view. To receive a clear view of what death is to the

An example of how Lud in the Mist expresses a bleak representation of clarity is when talking about the difference between the Fairies and the dead. “The country people, indeed, did not always clearly distinguish between the Fairies and the dead” (Mirrlees, Ch. II, 11). In Lud, the people who had eaten fairy fruit are seen as dead. Therefore, even though very much alive, they are just as Farmer Gibberty is who in reality passed on. The eating of fairy fruit is so controversial that the receivers of the fruit are actually in a sense dead. Death throughout Lud in the Mist is not properly defined, bringing a lack of clarity to the story. Nathaniel commonly visits the Fields of Grammary, which essentially is a graveyard that tells the stories of those who are dead as mentioned at the begging of the book. The final scene in the book is the reading of Nathaniel’s tomb in the Fields of Grammary. This important element shows how relative the theme of death was prevalent from beginning to