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19. Sneak Peak - Bonus Ep: Valar vs Mythology & The Importance of Grief

Lord of the Rings Lorecast

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Irvana Isn't the Same as a Fertility Goddess, Right?

Every human pantheon or kind of early human mythology includes some sort of fertility ritual, goddess, something. I don't believe that the peoples or the elves of middle earth worshipped ivana in the same way that they did a fertility goddess. Irvana isn't seen as being a big bellied and big breasted in the way that people would have idealized a fertility goddess around cycles of birth and harvest. It's more fundamental. And i know that tolkin would have been very aware of all o these differences. In fact, i would have expected that he would have analyzed each of these valar and connected them to other myth logical gods and compared and contrasted them. Because he was

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