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Post by MjolnirH on Sept 6, 2007 3:32:24 GMT -5
the whole series kind of starts out as a fantasy for kids and it is essentially, but as Harry grows year by year so to do the books get progressively darker #metal#
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Post by Dmitri on Sept 6, 2007 6:37:06 GMT -5
Grond, the other reason some people spaz about Harry Potter vs. LOTR is that in Tolkien's world, there is an understood diety (Eru), with understood archangels (the Valar), and angels (the Maiar) fighting against a Luciferian fallen archangel, his main servant, and the rest of his fallen angels (Melkor aka Morgoth, Sauron, and the Balrogs etc).
I think that the Potter books are great - I have em all, and read em all, and everyone around here knows that I can get pretty conservative at times, mainly in religion and the like. The biggest issue that Christians (of the really conservative ilk) have with the books is the depiction of sorcery as normal and good without repercussions (at least that is what they say the books are about).
Also doesn't hurt that Tolkien was a Christian and a member of the Inklings, a British group of academic philospher/theologians. He was buddies with CS Lewis, and I think GK Chesterton, too. And given the heavily symbolic nature of the Quenta Silmarillion, Akallbeth, and the Creation stories whose names I forget, he is considered along with Lewis and Bunyan by most.
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Post by grond on Sept 6, 2007 16:36:24 GMT -5
OK, I just never thought a simple conflict of belief could spawn such a universal spas fest. I thought Melkor was the fallen angel/ lucifer figure? I would have thought, given Christianity's record on competition, the idea of creating an alternate description of the same story would be taken to offense, but I guess I should have given more credit.
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