St. Clair seems to mentions something about how LOTR should be understood as a saga. For those of you in Novel, this will tantalize, because she doesn't talk about why it's not a novel--except that she has a constitutional preoccupation with all things Old Norse!
I don't think this article properly understands the role of fate and Providence. St. Clair sees the God in LOTR as quite Deistic in the "uninvolved" sense. She puts rather too much emphasis on the Norse influences and not enough on the Christian.
Yet it is interesting. :-)
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