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But by any metric, these dark warning tales have been far more useful than all those sword and sorcery flicks that try to teach us about good and evil by portraying the former as always pretty and the latter, always, with red, glowing eyes
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This is a common and somewhat ridiculous mistake for any but the very young (and not just in years). The evil are not evil because they are hideous, they are hideous because they are evil. The beautiful are not good because of their beauty, they are beautiful because they are good. We know a thing by its fruit. Think “The Picture of Dorian Gray”.
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Proud Brin can not stand modest Tolkien.
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Well said. That seems to be what it boils down to.
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"'You," he said, "tell her all. What good came to you? Do you rejoice that Maleldil became a man? Tell her of your joys, and of what profit you had when you made Maleldil and death acquainted.'" -Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis
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