NP? article re Tolkien

[S.R. Prozak]

> In this, Birzer argues, Tolkien was working in the
> tradition of Augustine of Hippo, who once wrote, "[If
> philosophers] have said aught that is true and in
> harmony with our faith, we are not only not to shrink
> from it, but to claim it for our own use from those
> who have unlawful possession of it." Tolkien believed
> the author of the old English story of Beowulf had
> done just this sort of thing, melding ancient
> Scandinavian myths with Christian insights. [...] 

A form of cultural oppression, that Christianity.

http://www.arch-mag.com/arena/wamlist/08279601.txt


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