
Vampires: The Life Is In The Blood
Haunted Cosmos
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The Myth of Sauron
Even if you take the modern European iterations of the vampire stories, like the one that we opened with in Eastern European story, all the way up to Dracula and the Western European stories of the vampirism. You see that even if they're just myths, they're myths that live in harmony with the grain of reality. That there's this anti-gospel of the blood. A lath spell which is actually very potent, again, Tolkien understood these references and that's right. They've been to his world as maybe Ben will get into. But Sauron was a vampire. He was a spiritual vampire sapping the strength of Theoden. And he also took the form
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