Tolkien, The Three Forms of Temptation in The Lord of the Rings @LitProf

Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

This is the continuation of the discussion of J.R.R. Tolkien's portrait of good and evil in The Lord of the Rings. It discusses three particular categories of temptation before moving on to discuss how three theological virtues add God's help to the moral life of its characters.

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