Jonah
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In this thread I (and anyone else who wants to) will identify three types of theme: Theological, Moral, and Spiritual. I will proceed episode by episode identifying themes, the LOTRO texts in which they are recognized, their references (with outline notations in blue) in the Episode Summary, and what is said about them in the Episode. References to other passages in the LOTR text I will color red. Citations of other episodes and slides where passages are discussed I will color dark red. I hope to do that in a way that makes the themes I identify easy to categorize and link to various content.
I think an enormous amount of excellent content could be collected for this project. I hope that what I do will just be a drop in the bucket and I look forward to seeing other people's contributions.
*note: I dropped "/PHILOSOPHICAL" from the title of the THEOLOGICAL THEMES I an identifying here, as all of them are plainly theological.
*I added SPIRITUAL THEMES, which seem clearly distinct from, though often closely related to THEOLOGICAL THEMES.
*Occasionally I will add my own comments, which I will italicize
I think an enormous amount of excellent content could be collected for this project. I hope that what I do will just be a drop in the bucket and I look forward to seeing other people's contributions.
*note: I dropped "/PHILOSOPHICAL" from the title of the THEOLOGICAL THEMES I an identifying here, as all of them are plainly theological.
*I added SPIRITUAL THEMES, which seem clearly distinct from, though often closely related to THEOLOGICAL THEMES.
*Occasionally I will add my own comments, which I will italicize
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