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Originally Posted by Nogrod
I think combining mythology and evolutionary biology this way is a bit complicated... we might be kind of nearer to Tolkien's musical magic than with the courtship explanation.
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Tolkien connected music with magic because that's so throughout mythic tradition. In Tolkien's universe, all of creation was a song. I didn't mean to imply that he did it because he related it to courtship -- that was my own supposition as to why, biologically, music affects us so strongly.