Is Sauron Frodo's shadow?

[Pitchwife]

few would argue that fex. Oedipus belongs to the fantasy genre.

No, Oedipus was the first whodunit - only the detective discovered himself to be the murderer; quite innovative for the time.

I like your thoughts about Túrin, skip - and they demonstrate that the exteriorization theory (henceforth, for convenience's sake, abbreviated e.th.) can be applied beyond the two-worlds-format. It isn't all in Túrin's head, Morgoth is as real as T. himself, yet at the same time he and his curse serve as an 'objective correlative' to Túrin's hybris, rash temper and bad decision-making. - What part, would you say, does Glaurung play in this scheme (apart from being Morgoth's malice incarnate)?
And thanks for the link to your last year thread on the curse. Interesting read!