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Originally Posted by mhagain
In Arda Marred, is it possible that everything made/devised/created is - in the longer run - doomed to cause trouble of some kind? I would certainly think so.
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I had to think about that one, and though it is tempting to say that this might be the case, when I consider the creation of Lothlórien for instance, it doesn’t seem necessarily to follow that rule of thumb. Still this does seem to suggest that things created outside the original thought of Ilúvatar, no matter how beautiful or apparently ‘good’ they might be, run the risk of setting things off balance somehow. Especially, when they are created for less than generous purposes.
Perhaps the marring crept into Aman with both Melkor and the elves. The agent may very well be linked to pride inherant in both.
Texadan, I wish I could respond to your last post, as I don’t think that the Valar intended to totally ignore the rest of Arda. I need to bring my book to work more often, so I can back myself up!
02-15-2007, 11:38 AM
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