Can't believe they're allowing jeans but still banning butt plugs.
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Seems like horsie can go to 1 or 2 places from every square... except for Meth Addiction, where there are 3 places he can go and one of them has weed!
"You read Tolkien and there’s times where it feels infused with an almost scriptural kind of feeling," [Rings of Power showrunner J.D. ] Payne told the Deseret News, adding that Tolkien’s work "feels deeply influenced by sort of a wisdom tradition"
Ah yes, the old "sort of a wisdom tradition". This is exactly the level of insight I expect from the producer of Rings of Power. :)
LOTR is religious in the sense that there is a right thing to do and a wrong thing to do, and doers of good things prosper while doers of bad things suffer. Fantasy, in other words.
The only slightly-Catholic bit is that wrongdoers don't necessarily suffer at the hands of others (though there is certainly a lot of that) but that doing wrong is a psychic punishment in and of itself. Gollum, Denethor, even Saruman by the end all were mostly tortured by their own thoughts. In other words, doing the right thing has nothing necessarily to do with others -- it's simply the only healthy way to live.
Not sure how you got "because they can learn, they can learn to be good" as the source of the dilemma from the article. It says
It's not them thinking and feeling that's the problem, it's that Tolkien believed (as a Catholic) that you shouldn't kill things with souls.
This is a nice contrast to Frieren where demons don't have souls and don't seem to be open to morality, either; they understand it in order to manipulate humans but consider themselves outside its framework.