Posted: June 24, 1999 at 06:41:02: by Michael Martinez
Waaayyyy down toward the middle of the message board I found a request from DL for opinions on what religions might have existed in Middle-earth. I decided to restart the discussion up here at the top, as it looks like I'll soon be creating another archive. :)Tolkien described a primitive Numenorean worship of Iluvatar in one or more of his letters. He also discusses how the Elves revere the Valar in THE ROAD GOES EVER ON (sort of as intermediaries, I think). Of course, Isildur was betrayed by the Dead Men of Dunharrow who had worshipped Sauron during the Black Years, Sauron perverted the Numenoreans and induced many of them to practice a Morgothian cult which involved human sacrifice, and Tolkien somewhere suggests the Blue Wizards may indeed have started or somehow been responsible for cults of magic. I would say there was a lot of room for speculation.
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