LOTR and your Weltanschauung - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Theron Bugtussle · 11-29-2004, 07:03 PM

...because I think that LotR had a deep effect on me, highly personal. But like one other person has posted, I think I recognized in the book a morality and an idealism that was already formed in me but longed for expression intellectually. That was satisfied upon reading, and confirmed upon various rereadings. I think that the book did have a strong positive effect on me.

I think the source of my preexisting worldview was the Bible, which I read quite a bit as a child, frequently on my own, not related to church or family requirements or expectations. I credit the Holy Spirit with speaking to me (to my spirit--no audible voices) often when I read the Bible, especially when meditating on it.

I read LotR first probably in about 8th grade (say at 13-14 years old). It was also a time of considerable Bible reading for me.

11-29-2004, 07:03 PM	#20
Theron Bugtussle Wight Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Blowing the froth off a couple in this quaint little pub in Michel Delving. Posts: 147	I read the whole thread, but almost passed on replying... ...because I think that LotR had a deep effect on me, highly personal. But like one other person has posted, I think I recognized in the book a morality and an idealism that was already formed in me but longed for expression intellectually. That was satisfied upon reading, and confirmed upon various rereadings. I think that the book did have a strong positive effect on me. I think the source of my preexisting worldview was the Bible, which I read quite a bit as a child, frequently on my own, not related to church or family requirements or expectations. I credit the Holy Spirit with speaking to me (to my spirit--no audible voices) often when I read the Bible, especially when meditating on it. I read LotR first probably in about 8th grade (say at 13-14 years old). It was also a time of considerable Bible reading for me. __________________ For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying. -Gandalf, The Two Towers