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Old 07-13-2008, 01:24 PM   #7
Groin Redbeard
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Thanks for the insight and spelling corrections Aganzir and Eonwe!

Thanks for brining that up Legate. So Ilúvatar would be worshipped as the creator, but the Valar would be to whom the people would pray to for certain things?

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Originally Posted by Morthoron
Religion is relatively latent in Middle-earth; in fact, the use of the word 'worship' is more readily assigned to the seething masses who prostrated themselves before the images of the false Lord of the Earth in the Cult of Morgoth, and sacrifices and other religious facades are left to Sauron and his funerary pyre that scorched the golden dome of Morgoth's Temple.
So the people don't acknowledge the existance of Iluvatar, or at least don't revere him as their creator? If the term of "worship" would be applied to the people who honor Morgoth, then what word would best describe those who honor the Iluvatar and the Valar?
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