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To: JenB; BibChr
Don't you think you might be going a bit far in attempting to apply Christian rules to Middle Earth heaven?

This is a fantasy story in a pre-Savior culture with no obvious doctrine to accept or reject to gain salvation. It either is a universalist world where all souls would conceptually have a shot at heaven or a world in which only the elves and other selected people get to go.... if there is a boat to take them.

Gandalf's speech is from the book, but in a different context than in the film.... it is from the Grey Havens.
155 posted on 12/19/2003 7:07:47 AM PST by HairOfTheDog (‘I have quite finished, Sam,’ said Frodo. ‘The last pages are for you.’)
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To: HairOfTheDog
No.
157 posted on 12/19/2003 7:09:07 AM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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