Comments on: Source Criticical Analysis of Ancient Mythic Text http://stay-curious.com/archives/2009/10/08/source-criticical-analysis-of-the-lord-of-the-rings/ Encouraging curiosity about the world Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Karyn http://stay-curious.com/archives/2009/10/08/source-criticical-analysis-of-the-lord-of-the-rings/comment-page-1/#comment-22815 Karyn Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:32:20 +0000 http://boulders2bits.com/?p=1875#comment-22815 Thanks, Ken, for the correction. I've made the change. And thanks for playing along! Thanks, Ken, for the correction. I’ve made the change. And thanks for playing along!

]]> By: Ken Brown http://stay-curious.com/archives/2009/10/08/source-criticical-analysis-of-the-lord-of-the-rings/comment-page-1/#comment-22813 Ken Brown Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:11:41 +0000 http://boulders2bits.com/?p=1875#comment-22813 Excellent! Though I should note that Mark's blog is called Catholic and <i>Enjoying</i> it. I've linked you <a href="http://corthodoxy.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/the-sources-of-the-lord-of-the-rings/" rel="nofollow">here</a>, and offered a bit of a (tongue-in-cheek) response to Tim. Excellent! Though I should note that Mark’s blog is called Catholic and Enjoying it.

I’ve linked you here, and offered a bit of a (tongue-in-cheek) response to Tim.

]]> By: The Sources of The Lord of the Rings « C. Orthodoxy http://stay-curious.com/archives/2009/10/08/source-criticical-analysis-of-the-lord-of-the-rings/comment-page-1/#comment-22812 The Sources of The Lord of the Rings « C. Orthodoxy Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:09:56 +0000 http://boulders2bits.com/?p=1875#comment-22812 [...] want to check out our friend Mark Shea’s similar treatment of The Lord of the Rings, which Karyn Traphagen dug up somewhere or other: Experts in source-criticism now know that The Lord of the Rings is a [...]

]]> By: Tim http://stay-curious.com/archives/2009/10/08/source-criticical-analysis-of-the-lord-of-the-rings/comment-page-1/#comment-22798 Tim Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:55:31 +0000 http://boulders2bits.com/?p=1875#comment-22798 Very amusing, yet it fails to address the suggestions of unevenness in the text that biblical source criticism begins from. Reading the first few chapters of Genesis surely gives such a strong impression both of a finished whole and of component parts that some understanding like Alter's "composite artistry" seems required. First show that (some sections of) LOTR has such a sense of being a patchwork or collage and then the parody becomes much more pointed. Very amusing, yet it fails to address the suggestions of unevenness in the text that biblical source criticism begins from. Reading the first few chapters of Genesis surely gives such a strong impression both of a finished whole and of component parts that some understanding like Alter’s “composite artistry” seems required. First show that (some sections of) LOTR has such a sense of being a patchwork or collage and then the parody becomes much more pointed.

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