Guestsplaining 014 - Professor Rachel Fulton Brown on Tolkien
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Mary as a Medieval Christian Imagined Her
To understand Mary as medieval Christians imagined her one has to understand everything. She is the most elevated expression of human imagination, the humblest prayers for help,. So she's everywhere. If they make the criticism at Tolkien, they probably making it also of Christ. And so I think, you know, Mary is, there's that famous letter where Father Marie compared her to Gladriel and I've since been realizing that there are elements of writer Haggard Sheehan in both.
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