1. The Silmarillion and Judeo-Christian Themes
... the common ground his work shared with the collective understanding of his readers. Therefore, the prevalence of Judeo-Christian themes in the stories of The Silmarillion can be seen as narrative devices meant to connect the understanding of the reader to the world of Tolkien's mythology. For instance, similarities between the biblical and Middle-earth creation myths, which include connections between ... 's true nature. For Tolkien, the inference is deliberate since Melkor's role and innate character in the mythology functions just as Satan does to the biblical world. Paragraph 3 In "Ber...
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