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If you’ve spent even ten minutes watching The Lord of the Rings, you probably got the sense that there is a massive mythology behind the stories. If you’ve read the books, then you absolutely know this. Few fans have slogged through Tolkien’s mythological background, The Silmarillion, which gives all that background. These two videos do that for you. What you’ll learn is that there is an overarching point to the stories, and that Tolkien believes in lobical moral black and whites but not practical moral black and whites. In other words, in theory morality is simple, but in practice it’s complex.

Here is part two, if you couldn’t get enough:

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