http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/000932.html I was finally able to get this link to open. I'm very interested in the book because I'm interested in oracles. Ever read Dorothy L. Sayers's essay on "Cheating the Oracle"? She theorizes about what might have happened if the people involved had not cheated but accepted their fate and made the best of it--how the oracle might have been fulfilled in a harmless manner. For example, Laius might have lived to a ripe old age and died of excitement over seeing his son or grandson win an Olympic event; and Oedipus might have been such a good ruler that he would have been said to be 'wed to his mother city.' The only concrete example of this happening that she found was an old Scandinavian tale, though. This is of particular interest to me as I have an essay in the works proving that the prophecy inscribed on the Ring in LORD OF THE RINGS is in fact fulfilled in a benign way--for example, the quest "binds them" in unity to destroy the Ring, rather than as its slaves. ' Has anyone read THE INDIVIDUATED HOBBIT, a Jungian interpretation of Tolkien, by Timothy R. O'Neill? tal -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://dragaera.info/pipermail/dragaera/attachments/20031208/7da66e9e/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Casey Rousseau <casey at the-bat.net> Subject: Re: re Tiassa Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 06:48:47 -0500 Size: 4980 Url: http://dragaera.info/pipermail/dragaera/attachments/20031208/7da66e9e/attachment.mht