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Boromir88 · 10-12-2004, 07:42 PM

Thanks for the thread Sharku, I'm going to have to agree with Son of Numenor, and the others on that thread that Tolkien didn't "intentionally" incorporate the sins and virtues into his books.

Don't know exactly how to explain it, but it's the general idea of anyone, that a bad person is "greedy, lustful, angry, gluttonous...etc" and good people are "hopeful, faithful...etc." It's more of a "mental" belief where we without thinking, associate bad people with the sins and good people with the virtues, not something that is done intentionally, just something that is the general belief.

10-12-2004, 07:42 PM	#12
Boromir88 Laconic Loreman Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: USA Posts: 7,521	Thanks for the thread Sharku, I'm going to have to agree with Son of Numenor, and the others on that thread that Tolkien didn't "intentionally" incorporate the sins and virtues into his books. Don't know exactly how to explain it, but it's the general idea of anyone, that a bad person is "greedy, lustful, angry, gluttonous...etc" and good people are "hopeful, faithful...etc." It's more of a "mental" belief where we without thinking, associate bad people with the sins and good people with the virtues, not something that is done intentionally, just something that is the general belief.