Alright :streches: let me see what we have here... On one end,
Nox [forgive me for I do not have an extensive memory for long names], says:
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I do view them as a modern mythology,they're just so vast and very detailed they can hardy be viewed different from a mythology.
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and
Keneldil [again, pardon me], takes the opposite side and cites a definition. As for me, I shall have no business in taking sides, or stating my opinion but that of his great "inkling" C.S. Lewis:
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"...It happens at a particular date, in a particular place, followed by definable historical consequences...By becoming fact it does not cease to be mtyh:that is the miracle."
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I talked to someone about this before, and it took alot of comprehension for it. Well, whatever your interpretation may be, will be entirely up to you, the reader.
In any case,
Kelendil's given definition can also agrue the fact that it
isn't a myth, because it is an ALLEGORY, -- which reinforces Tolkien's distaste etc. etc...