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A Mere Boggart
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Another thought....maybe Tolkien chose to make Sauron quite impersonal in Lord of the Rings in order to deliberately avoid readers making analogies with any particular one of the various 20th century dictators? He's more a symbol of totalitarianism than an allegory of any one dictator.
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11-24-2008, 03:33 PM
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And one might only add to the 20th century dictators also the idea of the Evil itself which should not be personated or anthropomorphicized - like the principle of good (=God) shouldn't?
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