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Part Three THE THREATENED DREAM "THE LAND WAS SEIZED" At his best the ancient hero had something of the divine in him. God, demigod, godlike, or intimate with the gods, he provided a transcendental link between the contingencies of the finite and the imagined realm of the supernatural. Time and the timeless, man's mortal state and the realm of eternal laws, were brought through him into conflict with each other. Through him also these orders overlapped. - Victor Brombert1 He is a man, and that for him and many is sufficient tragedy It is the theme in its deadly seriousness that begets the dignity of tone: "life is transitory: light and life together all hasten away." - J. R. R. Tolkien 2 ...

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