How long will LOTR be? what would you like...

I still running off RAM, but Martinez is pushing some buttons. >8( ;D To better articulate the nature of my observation: Being that the Elves saw the Light of Valinor and were in the presense of 'gods', they are rendered by Tolkien as the 'true believers.' Whether he intended it or not, this motif most closely resembles, in all of Earth history, the 'true believer'ism of Christianity/Christendom. Scant few of the thralls of Melkor as documented in person, so we don't see into their mental process except for the short statement that "their wills were chained to his." But as a class, the Elves are in character given much more Resistance to Melkor's evil. Ie, Elves/Christians are given much more natural ability to defy being evil. This is what I find sublty painted in light hues and tones so that the cultures East and South, who are MEN, are easily identified, not as the anthropologic Homo Sapien races of Mongolian and Negroid, but as Non-Christian cultures. Christiocentricity scares the hell out of me. ""Racism"" would be too low a device for Tolkien to use, but the matter of Faith was not, considering that addressing and even justifying mortality was his main agenda. I'd have to say that while gleaning some fine, heartwarming points from Western religion can leave a soft fuzzy feeling in the most criminally agnostic soul, the concept of mortality Can be tackled by adequate minds without invoking Western divinity, or divinity at All, for that matter. So indeed it is not an irritant in any way to read Tolkien, the Christian Man, and see where he evangelized his beautiful gospel of Faith and Trust in his Illuvatar, because the magic he created in the telling punctures the professed thick skin of the agnostic. (I don't consider myself agnostic, btw.) What IS an irritant is to see the politicallycorrected modern generation essay that Tolkien was a pure vessel of objectivity. (I'll see how far I can get without opening any books...