how did LOTR change you? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

**lindil** · 09-13-2002, 07:56 AM

I think M-E will have a greater effect on people who havenothad the benefit of growing up w/ a 'tradition'. Wether religious, cultural or even artistic.

And by tradition I secifically am excluding america-driven western anti-culture.

JRRT seemed so aware and heartfeltedly wounded by the mechanization going on in society that LotR and co. is in many ways a reaction against it, in addition to being an affirmation of so many things.

So my point was that since I had [ and others I know] had such huge voids in their lives, the legendariuum, expressing truth as it does, can and for many has filled in a massive vacuum left by our decling culture.

09-13-2002, 07:56 AM	#9
lindil Seeker of the Straight Path Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: a hidden fastness in Big Valley nor cal Posts: 1,680	I think M-E will have a greater effect on people who havenothad the benefit of growing up w/ a 'tradition'. Wether religious, cultural or even artistic. And by tradition I secifically am excluding america-driven western anti-culture. JRRT seemed so aware and heartfeltedly wounded by the mechanization going on in society that LotR and co. is in many ways a reaction against it, in addition to being an affirmation of so many things. So my point was that since I had [ and others I know] had such huge voids in their lives, the legendariuum, expressing truth as it does, can and for many has filled in a massive vacuum left by our decling culture. __________________ The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.