A word by any other name ... - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

04-11-2007, 12:56 AM

You guys are impressive. And I thought I was the only one. But now that I'm in your company, I want to take a different strategy.
The mythology of the Silmarillion and of the War of the Ring is bigger than Tolkien.
Pray for the Spirit of Truth to reveal these Questions to you. I cannot support many of my opinions and I can't deny some of my opinions are contrary to the man himself. Does this disqualify me? I dare say, no. I read in this thread; and I became interested in ent-o-mology after reading Tolkiens bio, that Tolkien wrote in some letter that his world was around four thousand B.C. [I hate that B.C.E. cr##, leave it the way it is/was] but Tolkiens world is many millennium. So we must assume that the 4000 B.C. sighted was, what? end of third age, right? Come on people. Of certainty the Tolkien languages are related, to the european langauges, even down to the dialetic regional variations of some ten square miles of soil, geographically and temporally isolated, whether or not there exist phonetic simularity. I believe; as strongly as any martyred protestant; that Tolkiens revelation was historical. Far beyond ancient. An spiritual echo, of something . . . distant and yet so present, all around me, and yet . . . unreachable.
I am not jewish.
I am not a chosen son of God
I am a European American.
This is my religion.

04-11-2007, 12:56 AM	#1
Neithan Tol Turambar Guest Posts: n/a	eavesdropping You guys are impressive. And I thought I was the only one. But now that I'm in your company, I want to take a different strategy. The mythology of the Silmarillion and of the War of the Ring is bigger than Tolkien. Pray for the Spirit of Truth to reveal these Questions to you. I cannot support many of my opinions and I can't deny some of my opinions are contrary to the man himself. Does this disqualify me? I dare say, no. I read in this thread; and I became interested in ent-o-mology after reading Tolkiens bio, that Tolkien wrote in some letter that his world was around four thousand B.C. [I hate that B.C.E. cr##, leave it the way it is/was] but Tolkiens world is many millennium. So we must assume that the 4000 B.C. sighted was, what? end of third age, right? Come on people. Of certainty the Tolkien languages are related, to the european langauges, even down to the dialetic regional variations of some ten square miles of soil, geographically and temporally isolated, whether or not there exist phonetic simularity. I believe; as strongly as any martyred protestant; that Tolkiens revelation was historical. Far beyond ancient. An spiritual echo, of something . . . distant and yet so present, all around me, and yet . . . unreachable. I am not jewish. I am not a chosen son of God I am a European American. This is my religion.