Ooh la la, Lúthien... - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lush · 09-18-2004, 03:59 PM

This thread was a message to various members of this forum that liked to jump to conclusions regarding Tolkien's treatment of romantic love in his works.

It wasn't meant as a commentary on Catholicism, but as a commentary on the way in which certain people assign their own values to fictional characters, based on a nebulous notion of "But Tolkien was a Catholic!"

But so what?

That's what I was trying to say at the time, however clumsily.

09-18-2004, 03:59 PM	#33
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,770	This thread was a message to various members of this forum that liked to jump to conclusions regarding Tolkien's treatment of romantic love in his works. It wasn't meant as a commentary on Catholicism, but as a commentary on the way in which certain people assign their own values to fictional characters, based on a nebulous notion of "But Tolkien was a Catholic!" But so what? That's what I was trying to say at the time, however clumsily. __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~