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I don't follow. Who is the angel in lord of the rings? Gandalf? He's a wizard not an angel. There might be something in the Silmarilion that backs up your i
by staticman2 6y ago
I don't follow. Who is the angel in lord of the rings? Gandalf? He's a wizard not an angel.
There might be something in the Silmarilion that backs up your interpretation but I don't think it's in Lord of the Rings.
- orwin 6y agoGandalf is an angel, like Sauron and Saroumane. Well, rather: all wizards are Maiars, and Maiar are immortal spirits, brought down middle-earth by the gods to stop Sauron.
- msrenee 6y agoI suppose you could frame the Maiar as angels if you want, but it feels like a stretch. If they're angels, then every divine being that is not explicitly god is an angel. There's definitely Christian morality at play in LOTR, but everything I've read from Tolkien's letters says that the works were not meant to be an allegory or based on Christianity. If you're going to apply Christian themes to LOTR, you might as well hit up Homer's works as well. It's a work by a Christian, not necessarily a work about Christianity.