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#50148 12/19/01 02:23 AM
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The imminent release of the first of the Tolkien trilogy on film reminds me that JRRT made extensive use of symbols involving light vs darkness all through LOTR. The gift of the lady Galadriel to Hamfast, the twilight into which Frodo falls when he wears the ring, the doors whose key can only be seen by starlight, the all-pervasive gloom of Mordor, etc. etc. Now that I come to think it over, "extensive" is not the word -- it's more than that. Indeed, the contrast/conflict between light and dark is almost a theme running under the whole work.


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LOTR

And the Led Zeppelin lyric, "...in the darkest depths of Mordor/there lurks the Evil One... (that may be a paraphrase), usually cited by fundamentalists to condemn the group as Satanic, is nothing more than a literary allusion to LOTR! And rarely, if ever, have I heard this ridiculous charge of demonism rebutted by pointing out this simple fact.


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