Talk:Themes in The Lord of the Rings

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1 Negative themes grossly ignored
2 Over-simplifying
3 Suggest Move
4 Frodo's hesitation to destroy the ring
5 Need Sources

[edit] Negative themes grossly ignored

J.R.R. used strong racial and religious ideas in his work. There are numerous parallels to Islam and Mordor, Aryanism and the Elves, and Perhaps the Most noteworthy Homoerotisms. All these things may draw from sources in his Biography as well, like his fear of spiders. None of this is discussed here.

http://www.crossroad.to/text/responses/archive/rings1.htm http://www.capalert.com/capreports/lotr-towers.htm http://www.plymouth.edu/library/opac/record/1326930

You're grossly distorting and generalizing. See Tolkien and racism. Uthanc 03:13, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Over-simplifying

The initial form of this article is over-simplifying things and is misleading on several points. Also, it would be courteous to the author of the book to start from themes in the book. Themes that appear only in one or more of the adaptations should not be mentioned here, but treated in a separate article. Thanks. Carcharoth 12:12, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suggest Move

Would anyone mind if I moved the page title to Themes in The Lord of the Rings as opposed to the current quotes? Sorry Guy 14:11, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

I thought that was a bit strange as well. Not sure what the style is. Let's try looking here at pages beginning with "Themes". Right, well, it looks like "no quotes" is the style, so yeah, go ahead and move it. Carcharoth 19:12, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Done. — TKD::Talk 02:08, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Frodo's hesitation to destroy the ring

The discussion about Frodo where he decides not to destroy the ring after all, is sort of the "last tempatation". Even though he succumbs to the temptation, obviously the mission is accomplished and the ring is destroyed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 171.159.64.10 (talk) 19:21, 6 March 2007 (UTC).