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With regards to Tolkien's dislike for allegory, wasn't that more of an issue with people trying to link the books to WWI and WWII, nuclear atom bombs, etc? Tolkien does not say it but the anti-allegory thing is an academic controversy. Allegory was seem by some (Poe for example) as a minor form of ...

It is the The Illuminuras, 2003 version translated by Jaa Torrano(sorry, i mispelled his name in the first post) as I posted. (Translated to portuguese of course).
You can notice that the 19th note of the translation you posted mention a controversy about that given verse also.

man, you posted all the text... By Jaa Torado translation (Illuminuras, São Paulo, 2003) translation from original greek the part : "For he learned from Earth and starry Heaven that he was destined to be overcome by his own son, strong though he was, through the contriving of great Zeus19."...

that is not what Hesiod says , All that Happened thanks to Zeus, in fact cronos eating his sons is also Zeus work in his opinion...

Before being even born Zeus planned the fact he would been hidden, defeat his father and turn in the almighty God. That is power, the rest is just cool...

My house's Bible, one of them, Catholic, from my grandmother already says that the events in the OT are not accurate but rather symbolic. The Book of Job is considered rather a parabole for quite sometime...All in all, the catholic church have been smart enough to avoid confrotation with scientific ...

the Ring would never be lost. But Sauron would not have it. In fact the Ring would get in desperate need of jumping in the Mouth Doom...which is probally not in the exactly place in the maps...
Of course, Sauron would have never used the ring in first place, as the first time he create it...

Wong is right, Epic in literature is not about production but a reference to Events or Individual acts that leave a mark in the formation of important identidy for one culture. It is a style and related to the myths and Troy War is the archetype of Epic story. For example, Moses's story is epic.

Ah, sure, makes more sense now.
Modernity is a thing from the past

Oh, I see what you are talking now. You are talking about the whole Classic vs. Romatism controversy...Just your teacher called Classic as Modernism, where all diferent art styles are either in one side or another in a cyclical change-destruction-reconstruction... I have learned in high school that ...

David Lloyd have been here one hear and a half ago, the guy is a funny dude, got drunk with brazilian drink and red like a tomato...well, i was in a table with him during an interview and he claimed a - Alan Moore is a genius, it was a great pleasure to work with him b - They would change things if ...

I am confused by some afirmations... How realism is the most popular stuff when we had Jorge Luis Borges, Proust, Joyce, Kafka, Oscar Wilde, etc who had nothing to do with Realism ? This is another note, the first post claims that modernism does not work with the notion of fate is totally false. Bor...

actually the histories of Chupacabra traveled as far as here in Brazil, where his "existence" have been noticed when he attacked some chickens in a small town near Sao Paulo.

or end in some obscure church as the golden ring Jesus wore...

Chile also managed to come to independence with relatively little bloodshed, though that was because they had a solid, long-term dicator in power. Brazil was good until the mid-90's, I think. Brazilian independence is quite unique because it was a fake independence. When Pedro I proclaimed the inde...

There is no modern Fantasy without Jorge Luis Borges. So without Italo Calvino. Lewis Caroll, Poe, Voltaire, Rabelais, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Kafka, Bioys Casares, Monteiro Lobato, Andrew Lang,Brothers Grimm, Cyrano , Hoffman, Perrault, Swift...Not to say, Homer, Hesiod, Ovid...

The bigger peril is to think Elfs, Goblin and orcs are a perfect species. There several creatures that are called elfs and not all of them are described equally. However I guess the poster is just using an example... He want us to say that most RPG's have tolkien classification and organization as i...

Wait, the elves were gay on purpose? Tolkien was thinking of gays when he portrayed the elves? No, The Elves love to sing (The Entire world was created by a song), are chivalirous, slender, elegant and basead upon the Sidhe of old mythology who had nothing of Gay. Even Galadriel is described as a m...

There is some mistakes in this post. First is to think that convetional fantasy is what Tolkien did. Not what RPG, D&D do. Read the Niebelung (sp?) and you see no Wizard at all. And that is one of the references of Tolkien. The traditional fantasy have not the huge number of mages and magical ef...

He didn't say it wasn't on this Earth, he said it wasn't on Earth. That is because Eden is not on earth, but regardless, That have nothing to do with what I was saying and this comment does not change anything about the probally view of Gaiman... I at least took that to mean that the judaeo-christi...

I remembered also the Graphic of Silver Sufer that tells about Galactus coming to earth and getting worshipers (he was still bound to the promess to not devour us, so that was his "vengeance")...of course that was Moebius's art... About Gaiman and the not this earth, you have probally rela...

Wolverine also proclaims to not trust any God to save him but he does not disbelief him. Which is pretty much the best logic possible in DC and Marvel also, because the existense of God(s) there is without doubt. I remember an old number of Avengers - It was when John Byrne, George Perez and John Bu...

Stark: But of course you are being harsh. Tolkien is fantasy of course (Tolkien is not the fans) and his books actually fits well in the way fantasy was handled by some during the XX century (which is re-creation of many old mythology in a different but similar universe). Of course D&D is fantas...

It is not true that the "Past is better than present" come from Dark Ages. This is already present for example in Hesiod and the Greek myths. He already describes the time of Gods with greatness and he does show a sequence of ages passing and new ages with less power coming. (Does not help...

here we just joked Doomsday was Hulk disguised with some stupid shards and well. ignored Doomsday as much we ignore the boy with a dog from Superfriends that they put in some stories (for good sake) and that bat-boy-odd (Batmirim, something)...