Huinesoron
"The fact that 'thirty pieces of silver' is such an obvious source for the 30 silver pennies led me to start looking for other possible explanations (what can I say? I'm contrary)."
Yes now the author points it out it sounds obvious. But I haven't see any published books by the so called 'experts' that have mentioned it before. Nor do I see anything much on the forums out there. Indeed, hardly anything at all. So maybe not so obvious???
By the way - love the way you think. Except Aragorn was referred to as crownless not 'half-a-crownless'. Which would lead me to deduce that Tolkien thought the matter was binary i.e either fully a King or fully not.
lindil
" I will take your version H!
The gospel reference just doesn't fit."
Really - that seems so definitive!
Love to see an explanation.
Saurondil
"Seems to me either too far-fetched, or mistaking the things of common life for specifically Christian allusions."
I must say that first sentence puts me off reading the rest of your post even though by its length I know you put some decent effort in.
So really???
Thirty silver pennies and its connection biblically is something Tolkien would have been unaware of???
How's about a mixture of subtle and not so subtle symbolic embedments?
Is that beyond belief - or do we all know Tolkien so well that we can definitively say one way or the other?
When it comes to:
the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism.
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter #142
Then the 30 silver pennies it's either a logical fit or not.
I'm not a rocket-scientist but I don't think I need to be one to arrive at a rational conclusion.
lindil, Huinesoron, Saurondil
I think its worthwhile reading Ms. Seth's post again - and carefully. The insertion of specific amounts of coinage along with type - is extremely rare in TLotR. Just on that basis one can reasonably deduce there was something behind it.
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