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10 Insights on Evil from Lord of the Rings

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The Three Stages of the Greatest Story Ever Telled

The timing of this movie is a patently providential coincidence, he says. Tolkien told us in his forward that his prime motive was literary, not philosophical. So I enter Tolkien's literary store as a thief, because I think his words also have great selling power in another store, philosophy. He believes both literature and philosophy can be legitimate as ends or as means.

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