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Originally Posted by Morthoron
One can make any asinine allegory or allusion one wishes. If we're going to lift biblical passages and throw them against a wall to make them stick -- and it's entirely reasonable to think that Tolkien knew this passage -- it would seem that this line from Exodus is far better suited to make such an allusion, and more than likely just as wrong.
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Indeed. Not
every little detail Tolkien added has to have some special significance. After all,
J.K. Rowling came along much later.