• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Tolkien is the best ever, but a lot of his stuff is inspired or ported directly from Catholicism.

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      This but also various mythological bits and pieces from England, because Tolkien wanted to create an English mythology akin to the Odyssey, Edda or Niebelungen.

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        Yeah. I absolutely love LotR. But read the niebelungen and certain poems from the Poetic Edda, not to mention Beowulf, and you see how heavy he was influenced by the stuff. Which is fine of course, everyone is influenced by things before them

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          There’s an idea. A fantasy for American audiences using geography from South America. They’ll never know unless you show them a map that includes opposite coasts.

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      A lot of that Catholicism stuff is just Christianity with local gods and figures retconed in using saints expansions.

      And that whole Christian thing is just a Mediterraneanised/Latinized Zoroastrianism.

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        … And Zoroastrianism is just hyped up druidism. The Persians were part of that Indo-European world.

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          I don’t know what drugs the Persians were into, but now I’m imagining a priestess ripping a massing bong and saying

          “Okay, what if instead of alllll the trees, it’s just about one tree?.. And the tree is a dude”

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      It’s all fanfiction all the way down from the original cave drawings anyway