Of the Silm and Catholicism
Sep. 18th, 2022 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maggiehoneybiteSo I signed up for the Silmarillion Daily, which condenses the events of the Silm into one year so that you receive daily emails roughly "at the same pace the events happened," along with suggested reading passages. It's kind of like what they did with Samuel Pepys' diary -- an entry a day. Except, you know, seriously condensed since we're not actually immortal. Anyway, I find it amusing that the suggested readings feel an awful lot like Bible verses. "Today's reading is from Chapter 6: Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor: Paragraphs 9-10..." The bit about Finwë seeking the judgment of the Valar so he could be allowed to marry again felt eerily similar to seeking an annulment from a Catholic Marriage Tribunal (and I should know). The same arcane legal arguments, the same baffling bureaucracy, the same sense of a judgment sent from on high. And the reasoning that, had you been content with your lot, Fëanor would not have gone rogue life would have been easier, but now that the children from your second marriage are here, well, we guess they were meant to be after all. Ah Tolkien. RC through and through.
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Date: 2022-09-18 07:52 pm (UTC)