April 04, 2011

Torturing the hills



I'm blogging lately about the social realism of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and how it might apply to working for social justice.

As I've mentioned before, I reread the trilogy recently and made some notes. Here's a line that showed up about 259 pages into it, referring to the Dark Lord:

"...we see that Sauron can torture and destroy the very hills."



Good thing stuff like that doesn't happen in real life, huh?


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