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Nick: aragonvaar (Registered User)
Date/Time: Mon, 7/19/2004 at 17:39 EDT
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In Reply To: this is why my critical thinking professor...  <an seileachan>  [7/16/2004 @ 14:35]  (1/1)
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I think the best way to explain this idea of Tolkien's is to refer to a book by a friend of his...
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C. S. Lewis's Perelandra climaxes w/ the hero meeting up w/ a new Adam and a new Eve, and also the "guardian angels" of Mars and of Venus, who happened to suggest "classier" versions of the Greco-Roman gods of those names.

Lewis's argument is that all of creation corresponds to a "masculine" or a "feminine" archetype to some degree, and that the angelic Mars and Venus are masculine and feminine, respectively, in that sense, regardless of what form they choose to appear in.

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