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Lord of the rings = cult of saturn

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Yehudery!

So basically it’s like he took western history, culture and mythology and put it in a blender threw the mixture into the oven baked a cake out of it

Abrahamic religions be like : "Evil Magick! Shirk!! HERESYYY!!!" 😂

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More on the relation between LOTR and Natural Law philisophical/spiritual traditions: ruclips.net/video/sh36Ys0hxoE/видео.htmlsi=-JldvcnEzJJFVcmM

Numenor and the one ring = atlantis and the ring of gyges

I truly hope you keep making music like this.

Also. Heaven and hell are Pagan ideas that Catholics and Christians copied, based mostly on Elysium and Tartarus. So even if Tolkien did mention heaven and hell it would also be Pagan, and pre-Christian

Great video, would love to see you make more videos on Tolkien

Your commentary and music is great. Please keep it up.

Very nice!

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"I don't see anything Catholic in this." Then you're making the same mistake the Greeks did, and the same mistake the Christians made with regard to the Greeks. Transcendence (Christian) and immanence (Greek), as well as divine unity AND multiplicity are all metaphysically true. However, no one mode of expression is capable of representing all these truths at one and the same time, and so different expressions assign different weights to these truths---while still preserving that which is de-emphasised, but recoverable, for those with the wisdom to see, hear, and learn.

Nice, relaxing music and beautiful scenery. Is this around your place?

The autumn woods over there look great for a walk.

Thee ambience is gorgeous! As well pretty song! Blessings to you!

The Atlantis parallel was obvious from the start. I don't debate this stuff with people, so I just assumed it was supposed to be an Atlantis parallel but I supposed you could argue the point based around whether the fall was due to corruption or nature. It seems like in both worlds, it was corruption that lead to the downfall. The Lucifer parallel with the main villain is very obvious too ( the jealous one). I don't think it should be viewed as a Christian verses pagan issue. It's a straight up tail of universal truths and those never change, even if religions do.

Great vid. Tolkien was absolutely "familiar" with Greek/Roman mythology. Like all "academics" of his time and for the preceding 3000 years, he could read/write Greek/Latin. He even makes mention of first reading the "The Iliad" getting lost within the world and never really ever leaving again. He put a thick varnish of Germanic language and imagery on top of his own mythology, but he was touching on the same universally "applicable" themes that Plato first put to the page. This "applicability" was the bedrock of Tolkien's writing and the reason his works are so widely and well-received. Cheers.

Excepting reincarnation, most of that is part of Christianity and so is not in competition. Christianity, even in the Bible, ties sins to lusts that enslave people. The ring has always struck me as being from Plato (it's too obvious), but this view of lusts (just search "passions" and "sins", bc "passions" are another translation of epimythia) has simply always been a part of Christianity. "Monotheism" like people usually mean it is a product of the 18th century Enlightenment. Christianity has always had angels and demons. In the east, salvation is characterized as "theosis," a becoming God. St. Athanasius summed up the incarnation as "God became man so that man might become God." There are elemental spirits in positive and negative senses in the Bible. The "stoicheia tou kosmou" in Gal 4.3 are negative, but when you see references to stars leaping for joy or the winds praising God in the OT, it's positive. Tolkien's One is simply not the One of classical Platonism. It is only sensible by way of Christianity. The One is not a person, does not act. Tolkien's Illuvitar does. He creates the world and that Valar create in imitation (including Morgoth). Creation is something done by the Demiurge in Platonism. Tolkien's One is thoroughly in the vein of the early Christian reworkings of Platonism, not in the vein of the original, Plotinus, or Aristotle. Moreover, Tolkien melds the biblical Flood and Atlantis together in Numenor. In the biblical account, the fallen angels descend and take human wives. They have monstrous offspring who distort the spiritual nature of their fathers, and they turn the people from worshiping God to worshiping them. These elements just aren't anywhere in Plato's Atlantis. The hybrids aren't that prominent but the turn to a false god is very much part of the text. If anything, this shows he may have read Charles' translation of I Enoch in addition to Plato (though it may be just the Bible). The only element in your video that isn't both Christian and Platonist in its outlook is reincarnation. This doens't mean that it isn't platonist, but more that most of the time the two aren't in competition. Even reincarnation is reputed to be in Origen. His actual works deny it, but the works of Origen (who was a Platonist and a Catholic) as they circulated in Tolkien's day would portray him as supporting it based on quotations by his enemies. The really interesting question, then, is "Was Tolkien an Origenist?" If he was, then all of the elements belong in both categories.

This is such a good presentation, I don't want to quibble over details. Tolkein was very much influenced by Norse mythology and Plato, as well as his friend CS Lewis (but that's another video). Spot on about Tolkein's use of reincarnation as a plot device, if not a key component in his made-up, hodge-podge Anglo-Saxon mythology. As one commentor has said, the Hebrew Shema affirms that their God is One. And that the doctrine of the Trinity also affirms that God is One in three Persons, not three gods and not One God manifesting in three, which is a heresy called modalism. I'd also point out that monotheism is a thorn in the side of Christianity because it is not biblical. Monotheism is an idea from the Enlightenment. The biblical peoples believed in many gods, even the early Christians. See St Paul's presentation in Athens in the Books of Acts and in his letter to the Ephesians (6:12). Perhaps our modern western sensibilities do not want to wrestle with the ideas of reincarnation and the existence of a multi-layered spiritual world.

I have heard about the Ring of Gyges and of course, the myth of Atlantis. It is the elves who reincarnate in Tolkien's mythology. It seems to methat Gandalf resurrects because he turns from gray to white. Your argument about hobbits reincarnating is weak. I think they were possessed by the deceased in the barrow downs. So, they retrieve old daggers from the Dunedain? That does not mean they reincarnate. Sam comes back from his quest. He does not reincarnate. They don't live in burial grounds, they live in sustainable holes in the ground. Sauron comes back because the ring is not destroyed. Not because he reincarnates. It's as if the ring is his only Horcrux. (Harry Potter) He simply takes on different forms as the Maiar can do.

The Kalavela, Finland's national poem, was also an influence on Tolkien.

Good discussion of an underappreciated influence on Tolkien! Sadly, I did notice one small mistake. The Norse poem that contains the list of Dwarf names is actually the Voluspa: musingsofatolkienist.blogspot.com/2015/07/hobbit-origins-catalog-of-dwarves.html?m=1. But hey, that's just a sidelight here in this video.

very well done

This is true I’ve noticed this through Tolkiens works as well

sounds good

Shema Israel Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Ehad! The Blessed Trinity is One.

He was heavily influenced by Irish mythology also

Great video. The deep electronic sound/music during the bit on Plato, what is it? Great thinking music

very cool video

What is the Norse text you are referring to in the beginning of the video? i cannot make it out. I have found those same Dwarwen names in Snorres Edda. Some of the earliest christian texts, maybe before they could be consider christian also states that there is a One God and from him emanates lesser gods, our world is in those text created by a lesser, evil god. Great video.

I love this analysis I think you should also analyze the Silmarillion and see the gnostic aspects of it

Such a peaceful and enchanting voice and with beautiful music, thank you brother i really enjoyed this.

This is wonderful. I never questioned that Tolkien was influenced by Platonism & Neoplatonism, in a kind of grand unifying sweep that encompasses both schools.

wow so beautiful music!

a piece of art, with your music, the narrating and the fairy ideas!!!

debate haz from infrared on christianity

Man, you can talk about anything and it can sound relaxing. The music helps.

Excellent

very nice video my friend, you have a talent in these things, as a real pagan!!!

Great song :)

Really good

Hailar Haimadalþar!!

The most destructive, deceptive, evil poison to ever come over the world.

"For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." (Rom. 8:13) I have my doubts about early Christianity being the materialistic faith presented in this video. As for moral nihilism, Jesus and Paul frequenly talk about following morality being rewarded and immorality punished.

wow!!!!!

I really enjoy all your tracks! Beautiful!

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