Stripes-—you are entertaining. You have gone from accusing many of the posts of “reductionism”, to your own weird and estranged reductionism, to your own stamp of existentialism, to maybe Tolkien is Catholic and proud of it, to maybe it could be read from a Catholic perspective, to show me the source of anything i have said (even though i have cited sources as have many other posts), to even accusing me of a fallacy when simply re-stating what you have said, to your own delightful semantic and sylogistic logjam.
So, you now insist on a source when i have given you a quote...i’ve given cites to you in earlier posts as have several others it appears so let’s not be lazy here striper and do some homework besides repeating yourself. Besides, as evidence by your lack of reading anything carefully which i have said or cited, what good is a source to you. See, your bias doesn’t allow you to read carefully even as to that which you have quoted and highlighted. You read but do not comprehend.
As i said, rather as he said-—you could read it as you wish unhampered by allegory or author intent...and that you have done. That does not change the Catholic perspective of the author or the perspective of the mythology of the book, it simply gives you the liberty to “reduce” its meaning to your naive existential comprehension-—sort of like putting LOTR on a par with Star Trek. You have exercised that license ceaselessly (which i don’t mind) and you seem embittered that i exercise my license in the fullest sense of mythology—to help recognize in the story the Truth.
JRRT states that his intent is not to provide you with the meaning because to do so would be to do what he despises-—write an allegory. He hopes, and in your case must cease to hope, that the myth is recognized as a story of Truth and virtue, of good and evil-—and in that sense it is a true story not allegorical. You learn from a good teacher that which is the subject of his teaching and not necessarily what the teacher interprets about the subject. JRRT is a good teacher for most. So enjoy the book you claim to have read and disregard the subject of the mythology as you insist on doing. I am not trying to persuade you otherwise.
“I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament. There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true wau of all your loves on earth and more that that.” JRRT
I know-—you want a source for that too Striper :)
That is correct. If you are quoting, I need a source.