The Dude was Right! The Book of Mormon happend in Middle Earth

[_cinepro]

I wonder what effect this kind of thing can have on the perception of the Book of Mormon among the youth of the Church (I'm assuming they're the target audience for this artwork...them and the single adult males?)

[_John Larsen]

I wonder what effect this kind of thing can have on the perception of the Book of Mormon among the youth of the Church (I'm assuming they're the target audience for this artwork...them and the single adult males?)

You mean the obvious connection to popular fantasy works?

[_cinepro]

Now that I've looked at that artwork all day, it finally strikes me that it is just computer animation, and those characters could very well be mock ups for a MMOG based on the Book of Mormon.

I also love the suggested placements in the home..."Office and Living Rooms"? Idonthinkso...

[_ludwigm]

The lighting is really screwy for the "Enos" and "The Army of Helaman" ones, too. I mean, it's night, and the moon is behind Enos, so his face should be in shadow. And "The Army of Helaman" seems to have a sun of some sort behind Helaman's head, but there are people there...

Who did say that there would be anything real?

[_The Dude]

Helaman 1:14 And it came to pass in the forty and first year of the reign of the judges, that the Lamanites had gathered together an innumerable army of men*, and armed them with swords, and with cimeters and with bows, and with arrows, and with head-plates, and with breastplates, and with all manner of shields of every kind.



*men = male, but not necessarily human.

[_The Dude]

Here is one of Nephi and his Asherah. Sam (brother of Nephi) tags along as usual. And what do you think they are eating, but the fruit of the tree which is desirable above all other fruit.

[_The Dude]

1 Nephi 8-11

And it came to pass that the Spirit said unto me: Look! And I looked and beheld a tree; and it was like unto the tree which my father had seen; and the beauty thereof was far beyond, yea, exceeding of all beauty; and the whiteness thereof did exceed the whiteness of the driven snow.

And it came to pass after I had seen the tree, I said unto the Spirit: I behold thou hast shown unto me the tree which is precious above all.

And he said unto me: What desirest thou?

And I said unto him: To know the interpretation thereof. . . .



The inclusion in 1 Nephi of an authentic Dunedain symbol that could scarcely have been derived by the New York farmboy Joseph Smith from the Bible or New England folklore strongly suggests that the Book of Mormon is, indeed, an ancient historical record of the people of Middle Earth.

[_silentkid]

The inclusion in 1 Nephi of an authentic Dunedain symbol that could scarcely have been derived by the New York farmboy Joseph Smith from the Bible or New England folklore strongly suggests that the Book of Mormon is, indeed, an ancient historical record of the people of Middle Earth.

Genius, man. Genius.

[_CaliforniaKid]

lol @ Nephi and his Aherah.

[_moksha]

One Ring to rule them all
One ring to find them
one ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them