THE SUNG WORD AND THE DISSONANCE IN AINULINDALË: THE DIALOGIC CONFLICT IN THE CREATION OF TOLKIEN'S MYTHOLOGICAL WORLD

This article aims to analyze the tense dialogic struggle (BAKHTIN, 2017) that unfolds among the central characters in the opening chapter named Ainulindale, from "The Silmarillion" (2019), a work by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien [1892-1973]. We seek to accomplish this through the utilization of the concept of the utterance, as proposed by Volochinov (2017; 2019) and Bakhtin (2011; 2017). As a result, we find that the concept of the tense dialogic struggle we advocate, synthesized in the concept mentioned above, characterizes the relationship among those characters, concretely realized through their responsive statements. It also jointly serves as the hallmark of the driving conflict behind the development of the entire mythological universe crafted by the English writer, as well as an indicator of how art reflects and refracts life (VOL & Oacute; CHINOV, 2017) by placing dialogic conflict, characteristic of discursive communication, at the core of constituting a substantially important aspect of the literary text in question: the tension-filled dialogic relationship among the characters With this text, we hope to clarify a significant point regarding Tolkien's work and pave the way for future responsive studies to analyze it through the lens of the dialogism that characterizes Bakhtin and Voloshinov's reflection.