/lit/ - Literature

>>20703621
>Has anyone ever read anything relating to Black Metal Theory?
Some articles on the subject are good, but mostly meh.

>>19927071
>>Gnosticfaggotry
Since when did Schelling and Kierkegaard become gnostics, retard?

>>19905666
>The divide between good and evil in his book was too strict even by Christian standards.
You neither. Take Schelling's perspective on god into account, for example (pic related)

>Do the Orcs have souls? Why are they portrayed as irremediably evil?
http://doktori.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/1515/1/Nagy_Gergely_disszertacio.pdf
Because the book is an imitation of a medieval manuscript. Ever read any myths?

"mythology seems to function not ‘textually’, myths not being texts but rather (in narratological terms) stories generating innumerable plots, stories that the given culture uses in a specific way (among others, in making them into texts). “We access Greek mythology above all through text,” as Dowden writes, adding: “[b]ut texts were not the only medium for mythology.” Clunies Ross even uses the term “mythological system” to describe myths’ function “as both cognitive and communicative systems.” This network (and the collection of all textual versions of mythic stories) is termed ‘mythology’ – but, as Tolkien would have pointed out, the word etymologically refers to the telling (Gr. legein) of myths. In Classical Greece or early medieval Scandinavia, myths had as many tellings, versions, local variants, as tellers and communities: “Greek religion as a monolithic entity never existed,”"

"Tolkien rightly saw that this was impossible to solve ‘authorially’: finally he decided to make use of the discrepancy as an integral part of the story itself. He transformed the two versions into philological variants, not only in the real world but also in the textual world. “The story as a whole must take into account the existence of two versions and use it”, he wrote in a letter to Stanley Unwin, his publisher. The first edition’s version became the story Bilbo told everyone and “set down in his memoirs”, while the second version was the true account known only to a few people (but as “many copies [of the Red Book, the fictional source of The Lord of the Rings] contain the true account… derived no doubt from notes by Frodo and Samwise”, the second edition of The Hobbit is also explained). “Not what he told the dwarves and put in his book… He told me the true story”, answers Frodo when Gandalf wonders which version he knows. Tolkien thus consciously highlighted (again) the metatextuality of his work, and even exploited it congenially to a dramatic effect. Rewriting, the oscillations of the text (and therefore of meaning) are thus not alien from the fixed texts either;"

>>19824571
>If Ilúvatar is all-knowing and all-loving, why did he create Morgoth in the first place?
Because God operates on contradictions and therefore needs in-fighting.