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<blockquote data-quote="Leah2727" data-source="post: 76818046" data-attributes="member: 444915"><p>I am not sure how much I can add to this discussion except to say that Tolkien was a translator of Beowulf before he became a fiction writer.</p><p></p><p>You could even say his entire oeuvre was Beowulf fanfic.</p><p></p><p>Now, Beowulf was a pagan story in its oral tradition but was only written down by Christians. It has Christian allusions such as references to "Agents of Satan" and "Descendants of Cain."</p><p></p><p>It is about a pagan world on the cusp of becoming Christian, like Tolkien's Middle Earth.</p><p></p><p>Those who point out the occultic elements in Tolkien's work are correct, but those things which are occulted, that is, hidden, are about to be revealed, which is the Christian advance over paganism.</p><p></p><p>The "Things Hidden since the Foundations of the World," as Rene Girard put it, Christ now revealed for all of us to see.</p><p></p><p>BTW,</p><p></p><p>I know a a guy who named his motorcycle "Shadowfax" and he's a Christian.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leah2727, post: 76818046, member: 444915"] I am not sure how much I can add to this discussion except to say that Tolkien was a translator of Beowulf before he became a fiction writer. You could even say his entire oeuvre was Beowulf fanfic. Now, Beowulf was a pagan story in its oral tradition but was only written down by Christians. It has Christian allusions such as references to "Agents of Satan" and "Descendants of Cain." It is about a pagan world on the cusp of becoming Christian, like Tolkien's Middle Earth. Those who point out the occultic elements in Tolkien's work are correct, but those things which are occulted, that is, hidden, are about to be revealed, which is the Christian advance over paganism. The "Things Hidden since the Foundations of the World," as Rene Girard put it, Christ now revealed for all of us to see. BTW, I know a a guy who named his motorcycle "Shadowfax" and he's a Christian. [/QUOTE]
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