@article{costabileLongAgoThey2024,
title = {'{{And}} Long Ago They Passed Away' – {{Fantasies}} of {{Renunciation}} of {{Immortality}} and {{Love}} in the {{Afterlife}}},
author = {Costabile, Giovanni Carmine},
year = 2024,
journal = {Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society},
volume = {65},
issn = {0308-6674},
abstract = {Whoever renounced immortality was always exceptional, whether it was Odysseus or the Emperor of Japan in Taketori Monogatari, both motivated by love. Less common motivations are also found, but Wagner returns to love in his works. In Tolkien’s tale of Beren and Lúthien, renunciation of immortality becomes hope for love in the afterlife. Both Dante and Petrarch extended love to the afterlife, but in Paradise Lost Adam prefers Eve to immortality. Tolkien’s view may be paralleled by C.S. Lewis’s statement: 'the union between the risen spouses will be as close as that between the soul and its own risen body'.},
copyright = {Copyright (c) 2024 Giovanni Carmine Costabile},
langid = {english},
keywords = {Beren,Die Feen,Lúthien,Odyssey,Taketori Monogatari,The Silmarillion}
}