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/ 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/ 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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