What if the Infinity Stones are actually the Silmarils?

Hahahaha yeah. It sounds really ridiculous. This post is not about that though.

I just read that previous post on how Pulp Fiction is actually an extension of The Silmarillion. For all its worth, most of the explanations of the author of the post fits well with what's inside of Tolkien's tome: the briefcase containing one of the Silmarils and Jules's famous bible quote capturing one of the passages in The Silmarillion. Of course there are lots of explanation that are a bit of a stretch: like Mia being a Maiar simply because of the similarities of the name, compounded to that is the fact that she survived being overdose, an evidence that she is immortal (for some reason). However, no matter how ridiculous it sounds, the post tells us that Pulp Fiction contains some likeness with The Silmarillion, and I think this is because of what we call "intertextuality" in fiction. Intertextuality is the shaping of meaning of texts (or images, since it can now apply to film) by using them to specifically symbolize the same thing. Because of intertextuality, all forms of fiction are said to be interconnected. Any form of fiction will contain symbolic texts/images that hold the same meaning from another symbolic texts/images from any other book. With this, aw now tend to associate something glowing and gem-like to mean something that holds extreme power, in which The Silmarils, the mysterious thing inside the 666 briefcase, and heck, even the infinity stones, all holds the same essentiality.




TLDR: All forms of fiction are, in a way, connected, because of intertextuality.