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Pilgrim Soul
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Probably only in one or two specific ways....
Gandalf's speech about Gollum completely and irrevocably changed my views on Capital Punishment.
It encouraged the "Tookish" side of my nature to win over the "Baggins" (although part of the responsibility for that was my aunt who said when my sister and cousins all married aged 21/22 that I would have to be the family traveller.....I will have to remind her of that the next time she suggests it is about time I settled ![]()
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Cryptic Aura
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Look -- a eucatastrophe! An unexpected party for the newer set to party on.
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Old bones
Thanks for excavating this thread Beebs.
![]() I don't know about changing or effecting my view on life (or anything beyond) but given that I ended up writing my Master's thesis on Tolkien and that I'm now trying to retool my entire existence so that I can be a writer rather than an academic it would seem that having read the works and admired the writer has guided me in ways I never would have expected when I first encountered Middle-earth at the ripe age of 11.
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I did it because of Mister Underhill's great sense of vocabulary. . . .
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Hmm... I had to look up eucatastrophe but knew Weltanschauung.... since I have degrees in literature but only a failed O level in German that has now affected my Weltanschauung .. :P
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I do hope you looked eucatastrophe up in the right source--Tolkien's OFS. He does that to us all the time, though, doesn't he, with his philological derivations and historical development of words.
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No Bethberry I didn't. That would be a slippery slope that might get to make an attempt on threads such as Canonicity...without the help of a sherpa... I looked it up on Wikipedia.
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Okay... Katastrophe
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