Fantasy Morality

[Mnemosyne]

Originally Posted by tumhalad2

Yes, actually.

Then I don't understand why you're suggesting that Tolkien's delving into the problem of bad stuff happening to good people, for no reason perceptible to those people, is somehow inconsistent with a (supposedly) Judeo-Christian-style god like Iluvatar, when we have a primary-world Scripture dealing with that exact problem.

More later, including a couple of very important metaphysical differences between Arda and the primary world as revealed in the Christian scriptures. I have to be off to work soon.