Baptising the Little Gods

Andy Robertson · 20 Apr 2002, 17:41 · from urth-v0204.mbox · original

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From: "Andy Robertson" <andywrobertson at clara.co.uk>
Subject: Re: (urth) Re: Baptising the Little Gods
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 18:41:33 +0100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
> (Or, as Eru
> says to Melkor, "this, too, shall result in the greater glory of
> my work." Or something like that. I hate having a lousy memory
> for quotations...)

As you note, it was Tolkien who started this game, with his Ainur: but Wolfe
approaces it from the other end.   Pas and his family are the very pattern
of the brawling, horny, quarreling, pagan gods of Greece, Rome, or the
Northlands, not JRRT's attenuated bunch of thumb-sitters.

    hartshorn

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