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mark12_30 · 06-17-2002, 09:49 AM

Bethberry, thanks for the return to the use of the word "applicability". I agree with you.

Too often we slip into thinking that any findable connection between a literary work and a spiritual truth must be "allegory". Tolkien clearly did not intend that we so interpret the word, and clearly allows us "applicability " and I think encourages it.

Thank you for bringing that up and clarifying it nicely.

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mark12_30 Stormdancer of Doom Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars Posts: 4,349	Bethberry, thanks for the return to the use of the word "applicability". I agree with you. Too often we slip into thinking that any findable connection between a literary work and a spiritual truth must be "allegory". Tolkien clearly did not intend that we so interpret the word, and clearly allows us "applicability " and I think encourages it. Thank you for bringing that up and clarifying it nicely. [ June 17, 2002: Message edited by: mark12_30 ] __________________ ...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.