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Old 08-31-2006, 01:06 PM   #11
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Isn't the Bible filled with tales of good vs evil? Of the insignificant winning over the worldly and powerful?
It is. And so, as Ronald Hutton pointed out in a talk at Tolkien 2005, are fairy stories.

And as far as this 'consciously so in the revison' thing goes, could some of those quoting it as evidence of the essentially Christian nature of the work cite examples from HoM-e?

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