(August 29, 2014 at 5:46 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Yeah, sorry, but Tolkien is very internally consistent.
Christianity and the Bible make many internal contradictions.
Wonderful?! Seriously?
The hero comes up with the concept of eternal punishment for finite thought crimes.
THIS, for me, over-shadows any of the pretty-sounding things in the mythology and makes it all ugly.
It's like, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still Sarah Palin.