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03-30-2007, 01:10 PM | #41 |
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Thank You... I think.
though it was not my intention to make it a humor article in the mirth, i guess its better than nothing.
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03-30-2007, 01:12 PM | #42 | ||
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Not so is the work of Tolkien. Sure, we have elves and orcs, balrogs and dragons, the mortal and immortal - yet all are bound by laws that permit a consistent world. Elves can walk on the top of freshly-fallen snow, yet cannot fly as if the law of gravity did not exist. Orc arrows fall to earth as would one of mine. A balrog may be the bane of elves and dwarves, but remains a creation of Eru. Frodo gets thirsty. Boromir is still dead. And so on. Regardless of the specifics, and with few exceptions, Tolkien created a consistent world with a spelled-out design. That world has Eru as All-One, the Creator of Everything, and so if there were another, not sure how that would work. If Eru were the creator of all, yet there were one greater? And if this one were not a creator? The mind spins (but mine always does). Tolkien set up a world much like our own, to get our feet in the door, but not like - to keep our eyes bedazzled as so to forget for a while our feet of clay. Quote:
P.S. davem would would not be so terse and unversed.
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03-30-2007, 01:22 PM | #43 |
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You misunderstand me. i know this that you have presented. i am not saying that the laws of nature do not aply to Middle Earth. i am merely stating it is, shall we say, fantasy terms. a way to express tolkien's ingenuity and the ability to make such a complicated, yet understandable world.
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03-30-2007, 01:36 PM | #44 | |
Doubting Dwimmerlaik
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Probably should have used the word rule instead of law. Sorry for the confusion.
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