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The nature of Myth
This promises to be interesting; I'm a relative newcomer to this space called cyber, and I've never had the chance to be in at the beginning of something like this. Are we inventing ground rules as we go? A discussion of the Proffessor's books necessarily leads to his influences and sources. Old literature and history have always interested me, and reading the trilogy in junior high (somewhere about the Second Age of my life), helped me with concepts I later studied in classes concerning things like "Beowulf" and the Arthurian cycle (silly me-hobbitlike, I had thought that they were just great stories!). Will we be straying too far afield to discuss Joseph Campbell's theories on the need of the Myth and the Hero, or shall we content ourselves with what a hurried snack on the road to Rivendell might have consisted of? Either way, I think I'm going to like it here.
Happy Beltane,
--Alan Q
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