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**lindil** · 06-25-2002, 08:00 AM

Welcome to the New Silm Forum Joy.

I am dashing out the door so I will reread your very informative post [ so don't be intimidated! ] again. but in short it see it as a conflict similar to the myth's transformed problem. And indeed it probably flows from the same internal debate w/in JRRT. At just what point do you cease trying to make a fantasy world realistic?

JRRT began to include a place for Christ, a real origin of the Sun and Moon, and now possibly a real substitution for John the baptist [ if I read it aright]. And a moving galadriel more towards a saint/Virgin Mary figure.

[ June 25, 2002: Message edited by: lindil ]

06-25-2002, 08:00 AM	#18
lindil Seeker of the Straight Path Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: a hidden fastness in Big Valley nor cal Posts: 1,680	Welcome to the New Silm Forum Joy. I am dashing out the door so I will reread your very informative post [ so don't be intimidated! ] again. but in short it see it as a conflict similar to the myth's transformed problem. And indeed it probably flows from the same internal debate w/in JRRT. At just what point do you cease trying to make a fantasy world realistic? JRRT began to include a place for Christ, a real origin of the Sun and Moon, and now possibly a real substitution for John the baptist [ if I read it aright]. And a moving galadriel more towards a saint/Virgin Mary figure. [ June 25, 2002: Message edited by: lindil ] __________________ The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.