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   Steve Hayes to All   
   Re: Tolkien's Creation vs Biblical Creat   
   20 Dec 06 06:54:57   
   
   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:27:14 -0500, Paul Arthur    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 2006-12-19, John W. Kennedy  wrote:   
   >> yttrx wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> One more small point...   
   >>>   
   >>> If you're looking for periodic christian allegory, then you can go and   
   >>> ready any number of his contemporaries, including C.S. Lewis.   
   >>   
   >> Lewis wrote /one/ allegory: "The Pilgrim's Regress".   
   >   
   >I would argue that the Space Trilogy also contains allegory.   
      
   Well, why not do so?   
      
   It would be interesting to see what your arguments are, and which parts you   
   think are allegory.   
      
      
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