(March 21, 2023 at 12:10 pm)Angrboda Wrote: The point is that these stories endured, not because they were great fiction, but because they were good entertainment. Though I suppose if you're competing with a tale of wandering the desert for 40 years thanks to an early version of Mapquest, a sort of "Lord Of The Rings in reverse" is not the most promising.
Lord of the ring didn’t survive because it was taken to be true.
The bible survived by being taken to be true because it managed the balancing act between overawing the yokels and not stimulating an effective pushback by the relatively knowledgeable until it had gained critical mass and can shout down any pushback.
