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So we start with a question, and you can see, and the question is where is God?

And as you know, this question, if you want, Acos throughout human history, and from Homer to Shakespeare, the base of the literature

this with this particular question. And of course, this is a question which is also at the core of a

book, which has rightly been associated with these classics. It is, of course, Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings.

And that God's question, the question about God has something to do with the Lord of the Rings.

It's very difficult to deny.

And this is the quote I'm going to read, the only quote I'm going to read which I also read last Thursday.

And this is the quote you find number zero on the handout, the sort of introduction, because

Tolkien himself described the Lord of the sort of introduction, because Tolkien himself described

the Lord of the Rings as having been built on or out certain a religious idea, focused in a

conflict about God, in some as a fundamentally religious and Catholic work. Yet, for the people

have read the Lord of the Rings, you will know that God is never

mentioned. In fact, in the Lord of the Rings, again, that would be a topic for the question.

It's mentioned once, but another time you invite me, I will say, where it is mentioned, but in

general, it's almost never mentioned. In Tolkien remarking, the famous quote, I're going to read first, a put not put in,

or cut out, practically all references to anything like religion, to cults or practices in the

imaginary world, for the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism.

And following Tolkien's words, many books, especially in the past 20 years, I've tried to

distill the religious element out of the story. And in doing so, they often have approached

a lot of the rings as an allegory. And again, I'm going to talk a bit about that, but later on.

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