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Old 10-09-2007, 10:37 AM   #8
A Little Green
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I'd like to stick to the point in the very first post that said

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Is Túrin 'evil' or is he really a 'frightened child' trying to do his best & failing because of some inner fault
I'd say Túrin was by no means evil (which might be due to how I hate the words good and evil...). OK, he had really bad luck and he made mistakes, a whole lot of them in fact, but can he really be called evil because of that?

What comes to the comparison of Túrin and Aragorn, I just can't make a connection between those two. Actually, I'd rather compare Túrin to Sméagol, because of the 'evil' they do, and because neither of them I think is to be called evil...

And, finally, I must say that

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Certainly, taken as stand-alone works the stand out difference is that in CoH evil wins & in LotR it loses. What interests me - & I've addressed this before - is that while in terms of (original) composition & of internal chronology CoH came first
made me instantly think about the Bible
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