(urth) (no subject)

Matthew Weber palaeologos at gmail.com
Thu Dec 16 10:05:02 PST 2010


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

>
>
> 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.
>
>
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
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/attachments/20101216/b2eb67cc/attachment-0004.htm>


More information about the Urth mailing list