The Emblems of Religion don't belong ... or do they?

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Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

Occam's razor means that we should accept the simplest solution that accounts for all known data, then question the solution as soon as new data becomes known. Of course, Occam was a Nominalist. Tolkien was a Universalist, I'm thinking. At any rate, have fun locking horns.

Thought that Tolkien was devout Roman Catholic (Christian), and did not think that universalism was part of that doctrine. In another thread we've considered the fate of orcs, which, seemingly, are excluded from grace, but that's a different topic. My point, however, is that Tolkien may not have even given orc afterlife a thought, but if so, then would orcs not negate the universalism that you propose? And what of Black Numenoreans?

And how did you know that I had horns?