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by SnakePlissken 3560 days ago
Satan isn't a dreadful spirit of the underworld, he's basically a corrupted angel!

I get where you're coming from, but this kind of pedantic hair-splitting with a condescending tone doesn't advance the conversation. There's nothing "scarily wrong" about a reviewer from 1956 not being intimately familiar with the breadth and depth of Tolkien's canon.

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In fact, most of this background material only became available ~20 yrs after this article was published.
> Satan isn't a dreadful spirit of the underworld, he's basically a corrupted angel!

So, like Morgoth (aka Melkor of the Ainur) then.