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Originally Posted by Fea
In order to answer that, you must first contemplate "Well... are leprechauns real?"
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Superbly put,
Fea, if I may say so. Now that
Fordim has clarified the question, I am sorely tempted to plead agnosticism, follow
Fea's lead and answer with a resounding "don't know".
But, since
Fordim has already implicitly accused me of fence-sitting (unreasonably, in my view, as I was simply seeking to determine the nature of the question that I was being asked to answer
), I dare not risk further such lawyer-baiting taunts.
The fact that Tolkien most likely intended Eru to represent his God, or rather an aspect of his God, is irrelevant as far as I am concerned since I have complete freedom to interpret the relevance and applicability of Eru to me. And, since aspects of Eru (like, I might add, some aspects of God in our world as presented by a number of faiths) are at odds with my conception of God (assuming that he exists), then I will have to answer the question, as originally posed and subsequently clarified, in the negative.
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Originally Posted by lmp
Even if Tolkien did not mean it, it still is so. The Spirit and Truth shine through, and most of us perceive it.
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Holy Moley! It's the return of the dreaded Capitals!!
And also precisely the kind of implication that provoked many a post from me on the dreaded C-thread, namely that only those of us who see and understand the "Truth" can properly appreciate LotR.
But I shall let it pass.
