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Originally Posted by Aiwendil
However, does Tolkien's world really "exclude" a Christ-figure? Is there no Adam?
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Yes & no. Evil (an active force) enters Arda the day it becomes real; evil enters creation when Adam falls.
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I think that Tolkien did, at least at some points in his life, consider Arda to be a fictional version of the real world in pre-Abrahamic times.
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It may be in his mind, but I'm not sure how he ties in all of the Bible into Arda. More thought would place his works post-Adam (duh!) and pre-global Noachian flood.