2007-11-15 04:18:49 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-11-15 04:19:33 · update #1
i think it's full of "truths"
2007-11-15 04:22:38 · update #2
ledbetter, i think you have an excellent point...
2007-11-15 04:29:59 · update #3
It contains great truths about good and evil and courage and love and compassion and fraternity and so on. It contains no facts, unless Hobbits really do eat that often, of course.
By extension to your other question, I love Marcus Borg's suggestion in Reading the Bible Again for the First Time that we can take the Bible very seriously without taking it literally.
2007-11-15 04:25:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, it's a fictional book written to allow Britan to develope their own mythology (something not borrowed from other countries as was the Arthurian legend). While it holds some truths about how we should treat one another and the balance of good and evil (the book itself states that this is not the end of evil, just this particular evil), it bears no facts.
2007-11-15 12:35:14 · answer #2 · answered by lupinesidhe 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are many truths therein.
Oralndo is hot, for one. And Viggo looks better when dirty and unshaved... And little people will rule the world!!!
2007-11-15 12:23:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
wow...your to clever for me...
Have you ever read the Silmarillion? That is more like the bible than Lord of The Rings.
2007-11-15 12:23:08 · answer #4 · answered by MNgirl@thebeach 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
“If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.”
Aleister Crowley quote
2007-11-15 12:43:21 · answer #5 · answered by CinnamonGirl777 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Its full of fiction. Delicious fiction, but fiction.
2007-11-15 12:21:30 · answer #6 · answered by Linz VT•AM 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I thought it was a fantasy.
2007-11-15 12:26:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
it's a better read than the bible.
2007-11-15 12:22:48 · answer #8 · answered by Lorreign v.2 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋