(urth) Bringin' it back to Wolfe by the long road

[don doggett]

--- Andy Robertson <andywrobertson at clara.co.uk> wrote:


> Only in the same limited sense that Middle-Earth is
> "Christian." 
> 
> There is no Christ, no Theoanthropos. 
> 
> Yes, I agree with your other points (indeed I've
> probably made most of them 
> myself somewhere in the archives) but this is the
> only really meaningful 
> definition of "Christian." 

Except that an argument can be made that Able is the
Christ figure.  Or Severian. Or Silk. Or Latro. That
at least gives it an overtly Christian template.
Tolkien's world doesn't possess this, only vaguely
Judeo Christian values presented as a sort of Natural
Law.

Don

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