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Reepicheep's avatar

What you wanna bet Tolkien gleaned the idea of the Scouring from Odysseus, Penelope, and Telemachus? A final, anticlimactic chapter which secretly is really what the whole story is about.

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Bertha Lavell Kramlich's avatar

I enjoyed your poem, Brian. But I have never read any of those books. Pretty ignorant, huh? My pastor will quote or refer to them and everyone in the congregation nods and/or laughs and I am unmoved. I think it's too late for me to remedy it.

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