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Originally Posted by Bęthberry
I don't know, Lal. For down right blood-thirstiness, nothing in LotR beats some of the Psalms, to me at least.
You haven't met my daughter.
For real horror, read saints' lives.
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Maybe where the influence came from. From my own experiences growing up with an ex-Catholic grandmother (
both my grandmothers were cast from the church for being pregnant before marriage, one also from her family), I know just how Gothic and visceral the religion is. Stories of penance and flagellation, eating human flesh, and the gloomy prospect of going through a baroque system of judgement worthy of the civil service at death. We talked about this not so long ago, and a lot of the Gothic architects and designers were mysteriously also Catholics. For me, it has to be something in the religion which stirs the imagination to such Arts.
A Goth who doesn't like Tolkien? They're bringing them up wrong these days. It needs to be a strict diet of Bauhaus and scary things about Ringwraiths or they'll
never get the urge to go out and buy a velvet cloak.
