Talk:The Doom that Came to Sarnath
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Transfered the information on Lin Carter and the name Thuum'ha from Synopsis to Connections as it is another author's later extrapolation and not part of the original story.
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I have to question the tone here: "The hatred of the people of Ib by those of Sarnath eventually drove them to madness and genocide, horribly slaughtering the helpless beings and stealing their idol as a trophy."
Nowhere in Lovecraft's story do I get the implication that the Ib-thingies (they're certainly not "people", and Lovecraft never uses that word; "inhabitants" might be better) are seen as innocent victims. It's true they don't actually do anything to the Sarnath people, but one of Lovecraft's big themes was that monsters, etc. could be destructive to people simply by existing (that's why everything in his stories is "blasphemous", "foetid", "nefandous", etc.) Lovecraft often portrays destroying monsters (or evidence of them, as in The Unnamable - "It would be blasphemous to leave such bones in the world") as a laudable or necessary act. This story is certainly more ambiguous, but Lovecraft does seem to consider Ib something horrific - it is included in a list of "whispered prehuman blasphemies" in At the Mountains of Madness along with the more overtly hostile R'lyeh, Valusia, and The Nameless City. Vultur (talk) 21:59, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
- I changed the passage to "The people of Sarnath killed the creatures inhabiting Ib and took their idol as a trophy", since hatred had been mentioned in the previous sentence. Vultur (talk) 02:40, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
