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eykar

Meta-notes on LoTR: The Unnamed Actor

Oct 08, 2005 08:50

LoTR is a clearly spiritual and also subtly theistic work. The purpose of this file is to collect theistic references and apparent instances of divine intervention ( Read more... )

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Gods and Monsters aelfgifu March 6 2005, 08:32:47 UTC

This is wonderful, and one of the aspects of LOTR I find most puzzling. I just gave my lecture on the concept of a watchmeker god (deism) but that is not what is at work here ( ... )

Re: Gods and Monsters eykar March 6 2005, 16:18:09 UTC

JRR always seems to have tried to negotiate tensions between his own religion and the theology of Arda. In his early writings, published as Lost Tales, he explored many concepts parallelling his Christian beliefs, such as judgement after death and purgatory, which were abandoned in later versions of Arda. He told his publisher, in the late 1930s, that in Arda humans came to life east of the mountains under the Shadow and something bad happened there, meaning the Garden of Eden story ( ... )