Re: Who were the Aryans?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L D) wrote:

> I did say I would not post anymore to these threads but this is an
> entirely differnt subject.
> 
> Hasdrubal Hamilcar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
> news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > L D wrote:
> > 
> > > You have brought out the important aspect of Tolkien's works, that is
> > > the easy division of the world into good and evil that parallels the
> > > morality of the Semetic religions (Judaism/Christianity/Islam). In
> > > contrast the ancient Aryan myths had characters who had both
> > > tendencies.

Except that it isn't true. If you look at the Silmarillion, you see 
elves doing bad things such as killing their kin in order to steal their 
ships. Lots of characters, such as Saruman and Denethor, have mixes of 
good and evil, although by the time we see Saruman the evil has become 
dominant. "Even Sauron was not always evil." And there is no suggestion 
that Sauron's Southron and Easterling allies are evil and some (Sam's 
reflections on one of them he sees dead) that they are not.

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> In fact the ancient languages of the Nordics (of
> which Tolkien was a student) are not even of Aryan (Indo-European)
> origin.

Perhaps you are confusing the Norse with the Finns? Finnish is not 
Indo-European but the Nordic languages--Swedish, Danish, Norwegian et. 
al.--are. So is German.

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