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Pepe
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25 Jan 2018, 9:10 pm

AshtenS wrote:
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Still, Adolf Hitler was also born into the Roman Catholic faith!


Last time I checked, lots of people were. In what way does this relate to Tolkien?

Hitler was also a human. Wait, you're a human too right? So that means....

Nothing makes you sound smarter than reductio ad hitlerum.


This person has a fixation on Hitler, etc...
Just saying...



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26 Jan 2018, 2:28 am

Pepe wrote:
AshtenS wrote:
TwinRuler wrote:
Still, Adolf Hitler was also born into the Roman Catholic faith!


Last time I checked, lots of people were. In what way does this relate to Tolkien?

Hitler was also a human. Wait, you're a human too right? So that means....

Nothing makes you sound smarter than reductio ad hitlerum.


This person has a fixation on Hitler, etc...
Just saying...


They say Hitler had a Hitler fixation too.



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27 Jan 2018, 7:27 am

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Okay lets say Ronald and Edith were closet pegans and held secret pegan ceremonies. What difference would it make?

It would make all the difference in the world. The Silmirillion, I suspect, was meant as a Sacred Text-- a Holy Book, if one will-- for a whole new religion.



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27 Jan 2018, 4:20 pm

Trueno wrote:
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Make no mistake! Tolkien was a Pagan. Christians love to claim him as one of their own. Do not be fooled. His work, The Silmirillion reads like the Sacred Text of a New Religion, altogether.


Tolkien was a Roman Catholic, the Silmarillion was a work of fiction.


A writer's fiction should rarely be considered an expression of who he or she really is. For instance, I write horror fiction, but I'm not some gruesome psychopath bent on torture and murder.
...Or am I??????


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