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| Nick: |
Reverend (Registered User) |
| Date/Time: |
Tue, 10/1/2002 at 19:04 EDT |
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It's part of my countercase as well. <NZ Strider> [10/1/2002 @ 16:06] (1/4)
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| Subject: |
"You have not weighed the Sinfulness of Sin" |
Message: |
...to quote St Anselm, my favorite Medieval pendant. All this talk of
nobly dabbling in evil horifies me. Tolkien was NOT teaching that the
powers can or would delegate the right to do evil, or that it's okay to do evil
to beat evil. That's Tyranny 101: Rationale for Beginners. It
pretty much WOULD make the book an allegory of WWII (Tolkien said that if it
were an allegory the Heroes would use the Ring to defeat Sauron). Using
it just a teensy bit because one felt one had to is PRECISELY the temptation
that Frodo is fighting all the way. I destroys, as I said above, the
whole moral calculus of the book for him to give in before the end.
In particular, it throws any Christ-imagry we may want to
assign to Frodo out the window. Christ figures triumph by self-sacrifice,
not by using crooked dice when it suits them.
The Ring is EVIL. All a good person can do with it is
resist it to the limit of strength. Compromise with such evil is the very
last thing the book could possibly be about. It boggles me that any could
think
otherwise.
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