Fantasy Fiction - Sacrifice

[Lief Erikson]

Is Torak supposed to be a good god?

And what I was saying earlier is that I wouldn't be surprised if in a work of historical fiction, there'd be that kind of sacrifice. Historical fiction writers try to bring the time period and place to life; they include all the customs and things like that that they know of. If one of those historical fiction writers is writing something in the time period of the Jews, I wouldn't be surprised if they included those sacrifices. That's for a different purpose than drama, and that's the only type of writing I can think of (historical fiction) that would use sacrifice for a purpose other than drama, and do it to a good god. Tolkien being the exception .

[galadriel]

Your points make sense... sacrificing humans *is* a lot more interesting and dramatic than sacrificing, say, a bowl of veggies.

I suppose Tolkien is using the sacrifice of the first fruits in the same way that a historical writer would be using sacrifices: as a detail to flesh out what sort of people we were reading about.