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Satan isn't a dreadful spirit of the underworld, he's basically a corrupted angel! I get where you're coming from, but this kind of pedantic hair-splitting wit

Satan isn't a dreadful spirit of the underworld, he's basically a corrupted angel! I get where you're coming from, but this kind of pedantic hair-splitting with a condescending tone doesn't advance the conversation. There's nothing "scarily wrong" about a reviewer from 1956 not being intimately familiar with the breadth and depth of Tolkien's canon.

taneq 10y ago
> Satan isn't a dreadful spirit of the underworld, he's basically a corrupted angel! So, like Morgoth (aka Melkor of the Ainur) then.
Ar-Curunir 10y ago
In fact, most of this background material only became available ~20 yrs after this article was published.