Flammifer
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Prof Olsen was puzzled as to why the Sixth Age ended with the birth of Christ, rather than with his death or Resurection. He noted that the pattern had been that Ages end when evil is defeated.
I suggest that evil was defeated at the Annunciation, rather than the Resurection. That is when God became Man and the Word became Flesh. I suggest that to JRRT, that was the moment when evil was defeated. The Resurection confirmed it to Men, but it happened 30 odd years earlier.
I think we can see that JRRT thought the Annunciation super important, by the fact that he celebrates it twice (Ring into Mt. Doom in the Gregorian Calendar; Celebration on the Field of Cormallon in the Julian Calendar).
I suggest that evil was defeated at the Annunciation, rather than the Resurection. That is when God became Man and the Word became Flesh. I suggest that to JRRT, that was the moment when evil was defeated. The Resurection confirmed it to Men, but it happened 30 odd years earlier.
I think we can see that JRRT thought the Annunciation super important, by the fact that he celebrates it twice (Ring into Mt. Doom in the Gregorian Calendar; Celebration on the Field of Cormallon in the Julian Calendar).
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