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    ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 7 Nov 2020

    1/ Yet another thought about The Odyssey: the entire climax of the plot is that the suitors (rude, uninvited guests) are slaughtered by Odysseus in a righteous rage. Tolkien, no strange to the Odyssey, I'm sure, started out The Hobbit with a host of rude uninvited guests

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      2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 7 Nov 2020

        2/ So there's an interesting inversion where the uninvited guests and resolution of that issue START the tale instead of end it, but also, Tolkien, who's entire literary career was basically reconciling pagan European history with Christian norms, has Bilbo turn the other cheek.

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      3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 7 Nov 2020

        3/ Odysseus, [ pagan ] god-like, murders in righteous anger. Bilbo, Jesus-like, gives bread and wine to the 12 at the last supper he hosts in his home before departing. 🤔

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      4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 7 Nov 2020

        cc @padrebrendon

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      2. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 7 Nov 2020
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        ... and why did Gandalf, the largest of them, not simply eat the others?

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      3. OccasionalBrainiac‏ @OccasionalBrai1 7 Nov 2020
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        Very, very well done, Eddie. Bravo.

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      2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 7 Nov 2020

        yes, I know but this is either orthogonal to my point, or agreeing with it

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      2. Frank Lloyd Righteous, Ph.D Misanthropologist‏ @BostonDelendEst 7 Nov 2020
        Replying to @MorlockP

        The Odyssey cannot be properly understood without recognizing it as the story of a hyper-intelligent man with a red beard who has annoyed some powerful people but eventually wins out by virtue of his wits, memory, and planning.

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      3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 7 Nov 2020
        Replying to @BostonDelendEst

        😂 and, LOL, there was talk of wrestling a few pages back, and I thought of you!

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      1. Greg Monforton‏ @GregM410 7 Nov 2020
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        Of COURSE someone wrote a paper about the two stories. https://dc.swosu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2344&context=mythlore … He doesn’t talk about it much, but mentions the expulsion of the Sackville-Bagginses at the end of The Hobbit as closer to The Odyssey.

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