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Originally Posted by Beth
Was his thought of Men simultaneous with his thought about Elves or did he think to create Men later in time.
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I don't think we could figure that. In the music, they both appeared in the Third Theme, and they represent, according to Tolkien's interpretation, the first intrusions of God into Creation.
Tolkien did state they represent the experiments of the same problem
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Originally Posted by Letter #181
Elves and Men are just different aspects of the Humane, and represent the problem of Death as seen by a finite but willing and self-conscious person.
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