Sunday, December 20, 2020

The end of season 2 of Mandalorian was the perfect example of what J.R.R. Tolkien called, Eucatastrophe.


Eucatastrophe is a sudden turn of events at the end of a story which ensures that the protagonist does not meet some terrible, impending, and very plausible and probable doom. The writer J. R. R. Tolkien coined the word by affixing the Greek prefix eu, meaning good, to catastrophe, the word traditionally used in classically inspired literary criticism to refer to the "unraveling" or conclusion of a drama's plot. For Tolkien, the term appears to have had a thematic meaning that went beyond its literal etymological meaning in terms of form. In his definition as outlined in his 1947 essay "On Fairy-Stories", eucatastrophe is a fundamental part of his conception of mythopoeia.This is something that the show got so right because Luke is that hope. His arrival is the turning of events in the Star Wars universe. He is the essence of eucatastrophe. via /r/StarWars https://ift.tt/37D2leu

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