共訳フェロウシップ 初期写本
研究室＠袋小路屋敷の庭
He is master in a peculiar way: he has no
fear, and no desire of possession or domination at all.
He merely knows and understands about such things as concern him
in his natural little realm.
He hardly even judges, and as far as can be seen makes no effort
to reform or remove even a Willow.
I don't think Tom needs philosophizing about, and is not improved
by it.
But many have found him an odd or indeed discordant ingredient.
In historical fact I put him in because I had already 'invented'
him independently (he first appeared in the Oxford Magazine) and
wanted an 'adventure' on the way.
But I kept him in, and as he was, because he represents certain
things otherwise left out.
I do not mean him to be an allegory - or I should not have given
him so particular, individual, and ridiculous a name - but 'allegory'
is the only mode of exhibiting certain functions: he is then an 'allegory',
or an exemplar, a particular embodying of pure(real) natural
science: the spirit that desires knowledge of other things, their
history and nature, because they are 'other' and wholly
independent of the enquiring mind, a spirit coeval with the
rational mind, and entirely unconcerned with 'doing' anything
with the knowledge: Zoology and Botany not Cattle-breeding or
Agriculture.
Even the Elves hardly show this: they are primarily artists.
Also T.B. exhibits another point in his attitude to the Ring, and
its failure to affect him.
You must concentrate on some part, probably relatively small, of
the World(Universe), whether to tell a tale, however long, or to
learn anything however fundamental - and therefore much will from
that 'point of view' be left out, distorted on the circumference,
or seem discordant oddity.
The power of the Ring over all concerned, even the Wizards or
Emissaries, is not delusion - but it is not the whole picture,
even of the then state and content of that part of the Universe.