Yeah, NN10 I agree with you-- some religion makes the story more realistic, but I think you had a good point back there, the treatment of religion's got to be realistic. In real life a lot of people have a faith but are not as intensely into it as a priest or a monk would be-- that's good in a story I think, for someone to have a normal slightly lapsed faith rather than be perfect in their religion because you bothered to give them one.
So, Littlemanpoet, you've revealed your long term plans, aha! Perceiving the other side, cool. And no one will believe her!
I get the strong feeling with Frodo by the end of RotK that he's more than half existing solely on that spiritual side-- it's all the more convincing to me for being done in that practical, nondenominational way. I'd still like to see the meeting of Eru & Gollum-- what a story! I bet he'd shriek 'don't cast us into the nassty flames preciousss, we, I, Smeagol will be very good, yesss! Bring the angelses nice fissh!' I wonder if Eru'd be able to bring Smeagol around at the last second? I'd try if I was Eru. Guess I'd better go start a thread topic!
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