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“[Tolkien] believe that ’there’s a little good in the worst of us and a little bad in the best of us’; but not that there’s a little good in evil and a little evil in good. He believes in human moral complexity but not in logical moral complexity.” — Peter Kreeft, The philosophy of Tolkien.
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“While her uncle is so afraid of death that he has become shameful, she is so afraid of shame that she seeks death.”—Matthew Dickerson (Following Gandalf)
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“Iluvatar’s intervention does not remove the significance of the choices made by the Children of Iluvatar, but in many ways it can redeem those choices.
Or; to put it in another way, the characters are responsible only for their own choices and not for the outcome of those choices; they are responsible for the means, while the ends are in Iluvatar’s hands."—Matthew Dickerson (Following Gandalf)
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‘Eucatastrophe’
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--points from "A Mythology of Hope – The Lord of the Rings (part 2)" on the channel 'Like Stories of Old'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HYlbg6RKMA" I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader and the other is the purposed domination of the author"--Tolkien
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