What's new
By:
Filters
  • Welcome to The Tolkien Forum! Connect with fellow Tolkien enthusiasts and join a community that is over two decades old, and still going strong. We look forward to meeting you.  Register

greek mythology

  1. KnightFluttershy

    Greco-Roman vs Norse

    "One might ponder the contrast between the legends of the torture of Prometheus and of Loki: the one for assisting men, the other for assisting the powers of darkness" - Beowulf:The Monsters and the Critics by J.R.R. Tolkien In this lecture, Tolkien, amongst discussions of other things, does...
  2. Gloranthan

    In Defense of Zeus

    The uber-powerful showboater of Olympus can seem insanely petty and jealous, and that's pretty accurate to some of the stories. But the philosophers were already embarrassed by this behavior, and insisted that these were just stories people told. Because, by their view, Zeus Omnipotent was...
Back
Top