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10-27-2006, 05:58 PM
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Alasailon
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: college
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In Christianity water was a definite symbolic element used for cleansing. People are baptized in water, and given the desert origin of most major world religions it's not surprising to see that this concept is widely shared. It's not too far a stretch for Tolkien to take his own personal beliefs and somehow (whether consciously or not) transmit them into his mythology for Middle Earth.
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