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Restating part one, addendums, extra mentions and exonerations
Technically, the term,‘belief’, never meant to act in “blindness” until our recent perversion of this term—that is, the ‘moralization’ of this term. Initially, the term, “belief”, would have carried an observed intentional and honest act.
I never make a moral judgement in my writings. All terms used such as ‘pagan’, ‘heathen’ ‘non-christian’ are all in their respective usages. Pagan means ‘the other *page* or ‘those who camp on the outskirts of the *peg* or *pegged-off* area. “Heathen” means, ‘those who live on the uncultivated plains; ‘the heath’.
Socrates says, “Truth” is the word, ‘aletheia’, by which we get the definition ‘to wander with the goddess’ without interruption (without halting, stepping around, stepping over, impeded ) of the goddess’ motion upon you’. Therefore, *divine wandering* = godly motion without impedance/ resistance.
Starting with the oldest book in the Bible, the Patriarch Job was identified as Jobab in Genesis 36:33-35 where we find that Job was the second listed king of Edom.
There are countless Messianic allusions in the pagan world. Why? We might answer the Why by the What for right now.
Verlyn Flieger (born 1933) is an author, editor, and Professor Emerita in the Department of English at the University of Maryland at College Park, where she taught courses in comparative mythology, medieval literature, and the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.
Be careful not to live by or be identified by a *narrative* of the past-whether or not your narrative is true, partially true or a lie. Your life’s narrative is a past thing up to this second which is now past. We are all going forward. We are not stuck in the past, physically or time wise. I am not in anyway dismissing our memories nor am I taking away the Holy, i.e., our childhood remembrances, first kiss, graduation, etc…
In this that I present to you, I ‘sutured’ the “extra Christian/ pure heathen” Theology that Tolkien understood through his immense studies to a Biblical-exegetical platform. In this paper, I will sometimes use Biblical and Tolkenian terms interchangeably to show the ‘trueness’ of Tolkien’s philological exercise within his writings.
