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FingolfintheBold · 06-07-2003, 09:19 PM

This is a great post, but most people won't like what I have to say. JRR Tolkien was the greatest writer of all time, and a marvelous one at delving into the thoughts and mind of man to find the part of us that longs to wake beside a clear lake under elven-stars. But as far as the world being a once physical place, the professor himself wpould have disagreed. He was a Catholic christian, and took the Bible's view of creation and man's history literally. Now there are a stinking lot of theories that could come off of that, for those that know some theology, but i'll spare you!

06-07-2003, 09:19 PM	#33
FingolfintheBold Haunting Spirit Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Somewhere between knowing my path and walking it Posts: 69	This is a great post, but most people won't like what I have to say. JRR Tolkien was the greatest writer of all time, and a marvelous one at delving into the thoughts and mind of man to find the part of us that longs to wake beside a clear lake under elven-stars. But as far as the world being a once physical place, the professor himself wpould have disagreed. He was a Catholic christian, and took the Bible's view of creation and man's history literally. Now there are a stinking lot of theories that could come off of that, for those that know some theology, but i'll spare you! __________________ There long the golden leaves have grown, upon the branching years, while here beyond the sundering seas, now fall the Elven-tears... but if of ships I now would sing, what ship would come to me, what ship would bear me ever back, across so wide a sea?