Read the thread.
I just came across this line while reading the Silmarillion
Easton Lewis
Jacob Hernandez
Sounds a lot like something that would kill an Orc at sight, son of Fëanor or not.
Jack Brooks
That sauce doesn't indicate a lack of knowledge of middle earth-y things; just cosmic things. OF COURSE an entity tied solely to Middle Earth is not going to be aware of the goings-on in Aman. Treebeard can't know about angels and such. But he CAN know about the history of his race and the lands in which he dwells - especially when one considers that he is almost without doubt the oldest living thing in Middle Earth.
Try moar.
Gabriel Stewart
Done that. Weak arguments. List the others FROM THE SAUCE.
Juan Roberts
>That sauce doesn't indicate a lack of knowledge of middle earth-y things
He talks specifically about Treebeard's assertion that Morgoth created Trolls and Orcs.
Elijah Lewis
You describe wood elves at the beginning of time. We are talking about end of third age. They've matured since the beginning. They are capable of thought and wisdom now. And compassion, even.
Not to mention, of course, that virtually EVERY ELF ALIVE is absolutely HORRIFIED by the actions of Feanor and his sons.
Easton Fisher
That wasn't in the sauce provided - why do you lie, user?
Chase Williams
, It has to do with the Professor's strongly held Christian beliefs, which maintain that ANYONE can repent for their sins and redeem themselves if they truly desire to, and that Satan (or Morgoth) cannot truly create or make things, only twist the beautiful works of God into evil shapes.
His religious beliefs strongly influenced his writing in one way or another.
Gabriel Martin
That was nice to learn, thanks.
Levi Sanchez
>Also, JRRT was strictly anti-racist IRL, so there's that.
One person wrote a letter to him talking about how he was a fan of how the novels appropriately described a racial war between darker-skinned people and his response was something like
>"I think it's sad when petty, cruel beliefs are so fragile that they must twist the words of other men to find any support for them."
It's honestly about the single most distainful thing I've ever read by him.