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 | | His exploration of openings, and especially doors, gates, and windows exists not only as a central framing motif within his written works, but is something he contemplated outside Middle Earth through his sketches. |
 | | While Tolkien uses actual doors, gates, and windows to frame a character’s transition from one experience to another or from one psychological state to another, he also uses them as natural passing points or elements to indicate crossing the threshold into another realm of existence. |
 | | Most major passage-points, whether constructed doors and gates or transitional boundaries, are framed by a threshold of water—a river, a marsh, or a lake as at Laketown, Brandywine, The Elvenking’s in Mirkwood, Rivendell, The Anduin, the Midgewater Marshes, the Dead Marshes, and others. |
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