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#157- Tolkien's The Silmarillion Part 1

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The Silmarillion

In Thomistic theology, angels have already made their choice and there's no reforming them. Melkor gets chained for three ages and then they let him out. I think it's a very cool telling of what creation might be like and how it might go wrong. It's a darn French horn player. Always is. If you'd only been content to play offbeats, that would have been cool.

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