Comments on: The Pagan Flaw at the Foundation of the West https://www.isegoria.net/2015/11/the-pagan-flaw-at-the-foundation-of-the-west/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:38:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Graham https://www.isegoria.net/2015/11/the-pagan-flaw-at-the-foundation-of-the-west/comment-page-1/#comment-2431743 Graham Fri, 13 Nov 2015 15:38:37 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=39184#comment-2431743 I find Goldman’s writing extremely interesting and valuable over the long haul, but one really has to take him with a grain of salt.

With the passage of time, more and more of his oeuvre is devoted to exalting his particular choice of tribal affiliation and mythology while denigrating everyone else’s.

[Please allow me to stress that this is far from my usual vein of comment on this or any other site. But the thought is inescapable when reading Goldman on this sort of topic, or most others, and he usually makes it pretty explicit. It's a bit tiresome when one doesn't start from the position of assuming his mythology is true where the others are false.]

]]> By: Grurray https://www.isegoria.net/2015/11/the-pagan-flaw-at-the-foundation-of-the-west/comment-page-1/#comment-2431731 Grurray Fri, 13 Nov 2015 14:46:06 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=39184#comment-2431731 Or Tolkien’s son edited the work to make the protagonist a conflicted anti-hero, an archetype more commercially palatable to contemporary audiences.

For someone who surreptitiously sought to undermine Anglo-Saxon paganism, Tolkien sure did a great job of fooling us all by lovingly and devotedly merging it with Christian themes and imagery in Lord of the Rings.

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