[Dancing_Hobbit]

all these connections are quite amazing! i never noticed them. however, i did notice a connection between Paradise Lost and Lotr. both of them seem to deal with degenrative cycles. evil becomes powerful and nearly triumphs, but them one or two good people are willing to sacrifice everything and just barely mannage to stop it. unfortunately, things aren't quite as good as they were before, and evil isn't completely whiped out, so eventually it rises again, and we go through the entire cycle again. i don't know if any of you have read paradise lost, but i thought it was interesting. of course, it may just have been something both writers got from the bible (i know both of them were very religeous).