... themselves evil through ambition." This parallels the defection of the Devil from heaven, without a spiritual being in Tolkien's mythology who closely conforms to the Biblical prime example of the Devil, Sauron was a flesh and blood creature, without this creature to deceive and lead the faithful astray, there is no "necessity for redemption in the Christian sense of the word." (Grotta 96 ... ) Middle-earth is a changing world, the Third Age passes on to the Fourth Age, and Gandalf tells that although Sauron's power has been forever broken, evil has not been permanently exorcised from th...

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... legendary war in its process or its conclusion. If it had inspired or directed the development of the legend, then certainly the Ring would have been seized and used against Sauron; he would not have been annihilated, but enslaved; and Barad-dûr would not have been destroyed but occupied. Other arrangements could be devised according to the tastes or views of ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School