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**lindil** · 01-24-2003, 08:00 AM

I know the good Professor was only granted an honarary Doctorate, but I was laying in bed attempting some of Treebeards breathing technique's [ well what I guess them to be anyway] and the thought returned to me that JJRT was in a real sense a Doctor.

I can only imagine that whomsoever decided to apply the title to those who did not practice a medical profession did so with the implication that these 'Doctors' had taken their field to such a level that, whatever it was, it healed or to use the root word made whole those whom opened themselves to the Doctor's influence, regarless of the specific profession involved.

This is certainly the case I am sure we all agree with JRRT's writings. Indeed with his idea of Eucatastrophe one could indeed say that was part of his aim.

I am hopeful some of the more learned amongst us can add to my begining, or that some of us may have more specific examples of how the writings of JRRT may have helped them in this fashion.

I know for me I have always had a sense that painful though it was reading the LotR and co. during the entirety of my teen years helped me to see what was going on around me in the destruction of beautiful Oak forests for tacky suburbs [tree's were piled up and uprooted without even the poor exscuse of feeding the fires] Public education was revealed as an exercise in mind/societal control [at worst] or a buch of manure only tangentially related to being a citizen in a country in the midst of moral, ecological and political crisis.

Indeed the entire culture around me appeared fallen and I credit JRRT's writings with making that plain and showing [ through the examples of the Elves and also through following up references to his Faith] me a way through and out of it all.

[ January 24, 2003: Message edited by: lindil ]

01-24-2003, 08:00 AM	#1
lindil Seeker of the Straight Path Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: a hidden fastness in Big Valley nor cal Posts: 1,680	Doctor Tolkien I know the good Professor was only granted an honarary Doctorate, but I was laying in bed attempting some of Treebeards breathing technique's [ well what I guess them to be anyway] and the thought returned to me that JJRT was in a real sense a Doctor. I can only imagine that whomsoever decided to apply the title to those who did not practice a medical profession did so with the implication that these 'Doctors' had taken their field to such a level that, whatever it was, it healed or to use the root word made whole those whom opened themselves to the Doctor's influence, regarless of the specific profession involved. This is certainly the case I am sure we all agree with JRRT's writings. Indeed with his idea of Eucatastrophe one could indeed say that was part of his aim. I am hopeful some of the more learned amongst us can add to my begining, or that some of us may have more specific examples of how the writings of JRRT may have helped them in this fashion. I know for me I have always had a sense that painful though it was reading the LotR and co. during the entirety of my teen years helped me to see what was going on around me in the destruction of beautiful Oak forests for tacky suburbs [tree's were piled up and uprooted without even the poor exscuse of feeding the fires] Public education was revealed as an exercise in mind/societal control [at worst] or a buch of manure only tangentially related to being a citizen in a country in the midst of moral, ecological and political crisis. Indeed the entire culture around me appeared fallen and I credit JRRT's writings with making that plain and showing [ through the examples of the Elves and also through following up references to his Faith] me a way through and out of it all. [ January 24, 2003: Message edited by: lindil ] __________________ The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.