/lit/ - Literature

It mirrors mythology, specially the bible and norse gods.

The evil comes from the outside just as well as the inside, temptation and sin are personified in the form of the Ring or the Eye of Sauron. The temptation itself is depicted as evil, so the subject doesn't matter, we feel it the same way without the need of a practical motivation for this evil to rise. The myth talks about a generic evil because all readers could react to it without questioning, they would feel the evil equally.

About the characters, their struggle is shown in a physical way, the journey of the hero happends with actual battles, magic items and of course, a real journey (they have to walk!). So the Strider in Fellowship is much different than King Aragorn, even though that is only there on the outside. The inside is replaced mostly by us, as we project ourselves onto them and their actions. The swinging of their sword might be, to them, just the swinging of a sword, but in our heads, on an unconscious level, it's about our own struggles. If the characters were more complex on that inside, we would have "less room" for us to fill in and the battles would have appeared alien to us and unimportant.

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