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The White CouncilRe: Religions in Middle-earth...Tolkien and Inklings Discussion |
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The White CouncilRe: Religions in Middle-earth...Tolkien and Inklings Discussion |
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Posted by Stephen Geard on June 25, 1999 at 06:52:23 In Reply to: Religions in Middle-earth... posted by Michael Martinez on June 24, 1999 at 06:41:02:
: 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. Religion in Middle-earth is a subject I have been wanting to write an essay on for a long time. The religion of the servants of Morgoth is obvious enough. But what about the good-guys? Did the Eldar actually worship the Valar? Or did they worship Iluvatar? If so, how come they never talk about him? The Numenoreans had some kind of ritual worhsip of Iluvatar. But did they bring it to Middle-earth with them? All good questions. : I would say there was a lot of room for speculation. Amen to that.
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