I think the most God-like character in L.O.T.R. is Gollum. He gets invisible when he chooses. The Christ-like guy is Frodo. He takes over and finds out how to do that too.

MAGIC is nothing more than a group of people having the knowledge and the will and the knowhow to do things that others are ignorant of. DOCTORS in our society are the closer to practitioners of magic than anyone else. Nobody knows how to do the things they can do regularly---after having spent YEARS learning those SECRETS in medical school. Having had several spinal surgeries allowed me to see some of that MAGIC in person when the neurosurgeons on the same floor I was on aimed their lasers THROUGH THE SKULL of someone with a brain tumor. The place INSIDE THAT SKULL where the lasers focused and met and is where the tumor would be blasted into smithereens while making NO ACTUAL INCISION AT ALL. In the old days, somebody who could do those kinds of things, seemingly magical things, was burned at the stake as a witch.

Folks, the ladies of old had the erb lore knowledge to do medicinal things that seemed magical. They were killed off by those who saw bad stuff in that knowledge---people who who had no understanding or tolerance of some pretty amazing and beneficial things.

That's what people now-a-days who are scared out of their wits by lovely fairy tales are doing when they perpetuate those old narrow attitudes and the fears of fear itself.

Art Thieme