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[Matthew Weber]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:41 AM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Ehh...The creation story in Silmarillion simply does not jive with Genesis.
> I don't see how all the hammers and grease in Mordor could wedge it in.
>  While there's nothing _hostile_ to Judeo-Christianity in Middle Earth, I
> seem to recall that Tolkien said in "Letters" that he deliberately left
> religion out of the books.
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Except for the Elves' quasi-Marian devotion to Elbereth, of course.  And Tom
Bombadil as a genius loci (there's your Green Man, folks).


-- 
Matt +

Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.
    Sextus Propertius (54 B.C.-A.D. 2), Elegies, II, i, 46
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