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Old 06-04-2007, 10:26 AM   #8
Raynor
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Originally Posted by Morwen
I agree and would add as a limitation their limited viewing of the vision of the Ainulindale as made visible to them by Eru
And to add to your addition , they were also limited by what each perceived/remembered on an individual basis of the already limited vision; my previous quote mentioned that too, so does this:
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Originally Posted by Letter #131
The Knowledge of the Creation Drama was incomplete: incomplete in each individual 'god', and incomplete if all the knowledge of the pantheon were pooled. For (partly to redress the evil of the rebel Melkor, partly for the completion of all in an ultimate finesse of detail) the Creator had not revealed all.
Interesting, that last bit .
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