from the Squatter:
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It seems to me that the transformation of Tevildo into Thû and later Sauron, coupled with Huan's revised status as a hound of Valinor in the train of Celegorm, shows a movement away from beast fable and the anthropomorphising of animals at an early stage in the mythology.
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from a tenuous grasper of syntax:
I think in fact Tolkien was merely, as Gurdjieff would say, 'burying the dog deeper'.
Meaning he would stress the evilness of cats by having, upon close historical scrutiny historically, Sauron himself descend frm Tevildo. While externally one can see this as a progression away from anthropomorphising, internally it really serves to underscore the 'mordorian' nature of this much doted upon, but so little returning species.
The cats of Queen Beruthiel, of course only serve to bold the underscoring. The one truly evil character of the Dunedain and she has as servants what?
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