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With all due respect to Tolkien, one cannot simply 'inuit' things like string theory, or ultra-dense conditions in the early universe. One could, I suppose, intuit some notion of entropy - but it would require conscious thought and directed effort. But I don't see any reason to think that the rigorously physical concept of entropy played a role in Tolkien's works. Certainly there is a kind of Norse idea of the long defeat, but this is at all points in the mythology a result of conscious actions, not of random processes.
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as regards to the impossibility or [extreme improbablility] of intuiting 'string theory' or other equally applicable but abstract theories, I bow to your understanding of the matter [no pun intended].
RE: entropy, what of the Valar's gradually failing vigiliance before the Dagor Daggorath [sp?], Although this is not a very material/physical example.