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Old 10-24-2003, 07:07 PM   #32
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It seems better to spend time justifying the immorality that is matter-of-fact in everyone's life than to spend time musing over the morally virtuous lifestyle that seems so alien and perhaps even idealistic.
That's a popular outlook these days. But would Tolkien agree? Why or why not? Or... which of his characters would agree or disagree and why or why not? What would Frodo say to that? Gandalf? Strider? ....
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