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Nick: notlost (Registered User)
Date/Time: Wed, 4/16/2003 at 9:28 EDT (Wed, 4/16/2003 at 8:28 CDT)
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In Reply To: This is not deus ex machina!  <Curious>  [4/15/2003 @ 23:31]  (1/1)
Subject:
Trees in the machine?
Message:

...or is that an oxymoron to Tolkien?

Curious, thanks once again.  I'm skimming with little time to post.  I was going to challenge the use of this term, and then I saw that you had already done so.  I do believem however, that the phrase has become a bit more common, thus a bit more general--I can almost buy such a reading if one claimed that nature is a higher power in Tolkien--the embodiment of a/the diety--thus the hurons coming (assuming they were coming on their own volition, which is made problematic by Gandalf's disappearance/reappearance, and his connection w/ the old forest) would be an application of the phrase in question.

Not all those who wander are lost.

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