Lack of re-examination (was:Re: Secrets (Long) OLD POST REPOST)

[pippin_999]

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> > I love, love, love Tolkien. But the only moral responsibility for evil that a good guy has in Tolkien is not to seek power above his station. That's fine if you believe in the feudal system, and maybe Tolkien did. But I think JKR is trying to get us to consider that maybe we believe other things now.
> > 
> jkoney:
> I'm not sure what you are saying about Tolkien.
>

Pippin:
Those who reject the ring are able to do so because they want no more power than is theirs by heredity and tradition. And that's all they have to do to prove themselves  -- they don't even have to fight if it's not in their nature. 

There's a sense that everything would be fine if people could just accept their place and their station in life -- which the good characters do.  They  are not responsible in the least for Sauron's existence or his hatred.

You'd never have Gandalf saying of the free folk of the west what Dumbledore says of wizards, that they have mistreated and abused their fellows for too long, and are now reaping their reward.


Pippin