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The Lord of the Rings is inspired by God and all the haters therefore hate all that is good and beautiful. They are devils, demons!

>> No.22131396
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>The Second Apocalypse is inspired by God and all the haters therefore hate all that is good and beautiful. They are devils, demons!
ftfy

>> No.22132565

>>22131307
Melkor is the Abrahamic "god" of the bible.
>both required blood sacrifices
>both demand the followers to engage in military conquests to spread the religion
>both resulted in the loss of mankind's immortality/long-life after being worshiped (in Eden, under the nature god, Adam and Eve had long-life or immortality, but after starting to worship the Serpent of Eden they lost it)
>both are monotheistic
>both are jealous "gods"
>both are gods of Flame (e.g. burning bush) and war (Lord of Hosts)
>both sometimes took the shape of a storm cloud (Exodus)
>both have temples and priests

>> No.22133064

>>22132565
Take you meds.

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>>22133064
>Melkor's blood sacrifices are completely different from YHWH's blood sacrifices
>there's blood sacrifices and then there's *blood sacrifices*
>i mean, come on.

>> No.22133463

>>22131307
pretty polytheistic for a work that's supposedly inspired by the Christian God
there's parallels here and there but come on

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>>22131307
Explains a lot.

>> No.22133501

>>22133463
It is untimately catholic. All the valar and maiar are basically angels and saints.All things are naturally holy and al the evil vomes from corruption of the creation.

>> No.22133514

>>22131307
Conan, Elric and the Gray Mouser series are better and more fun to read overall. Lotr simply helped make the genre more popular.

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I really wish we could stop talking about this gay book already. There are far better epics that were written in history to talk about, but /tv/ insinuates that we talk about shit that will never enter the Western Canon.

>> No.22134984

>>22133514
true

>> No.22134997

>>22133838
Which Epics?