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Which Do You Want? Spiritual Corruption or the Baptism of the Imagination? C S Lewis's Space Trilogy

The Meaning Code

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The Lord of the Rings

Karen: Did Tolkien already know the main story of Lord of the Rings when he wrote this because isn't it also middle earth, the elves and the the dwarves. I think that the Rossa would be like the middle earth people and the soars would be the elves and He would be the dwarf. There's a lot of similarity in those in those patterns and I'm sure he had something like that in the back of his mind. We're all just blind to everything that he wrote before his notion of elvendom of fairy is actually much more like the elves and warps of middle earth than we think.

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