The choice in Middle Earth

inked · 10-05-2005, 05:55 PM

littleadanel,

That's because evil is not self-existent but derivative! (And Tolkien as a good, practicing Catholic certainly knew that in his bones so it could not have escaped getting into his work.)

And since evil is derivative, it follows that it has its origins in disordered desire. That is, evil must consist in taking a positive good in such a fashion as inconsistent with the nature of the desirer and/or the nature of the object desired. Hence, one can love some(one)(thing) more than Eru or one can take a created object in wrong time or degree or one can pervert the proper use of one's self or the created (one) (thing).

Hence, Melkor's and Morgoth's and Maeglin's rebellions evidence those characteristics! It's not really boy wants girl or vice versa for every story,

, Melkor wanted to be Eru! And those Numenoreans! They wanted it all in their way in their degree and to their liking!

10-05-2005, 05:55 PM	#17
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	littleadanel, That's because evil is not self-existent but derivative! (And Tolkien as a good, practicing Catholic certainly knew that in his bones so it could not have escaped getting into his work.) And since evil is derivative, it follows that it has its origins in disordered desire. That is, evil must consist in taking a positive good in such a fashion as inconsistent with the nature of the desirer and/or the nature of the object desired. Hence, one can love some(one)(thing) more than Eru or one can take a created object in wrong time or degree or one can pervert the proper use of one's self or the created (one) (thing). Hence, Melkor's and Morgoth's and Maeglin's rebellions evidence those characteristics! It's not really boy wants girl or vice versa for every story, , Melkor wanted to be Eru! And those Numenoreans! They wanted it all in their way in their degree and to their liking! __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941 Last edited by inked : 10-05-2005 at 05:57 PM. Reason: forgot mooter name

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