[Main Blog Post] [Book] The Seed of Yggdrasill 2 - Creation, Cosmos, and the Ruling Powers

[jprussell]

Okay, okay, I finally made it through the very long second chapter of The Seed of Yggdrasill and got my thoughts on it written down here. There's more lingering confusion than I'd prefer, even after getting my thoughts written and organized, but maybe you will be able to help me work through some of that with thoughts and commentary, which I welcome.

Comments

[thinking_turtle]

Thanks for the long post with many interesting ideas. The Voluspa dwarves make me think of Tolkien's dwarves, who were also awakened before men, and were called the Stunted (Naugrim.)

[jprussell]

Thanks! And that's not too surprising - Tolkien got the names for most of the Dwarves in the Hobbit from the Dvergatal ("Catalog of the Dwarves"), as well as the initial seed for Gandalf - he asked himself "why is there someone named 'Wand Elf' in the list of dwarves?" and away he went. Also, as you say, his version of the creation of dwarves given in Silmarillion (or was it Unfinished Tales?) was clearly channeling some of what's in Voluspa - coming very early in the creation, being confined underground, being "shaped" from the ground by a Being (Aulë) lesser than Iluvatar, and so forth.