A new job has seriously impaired my Downs-time and my ability to keep up with, let alone contribute to, these book discussions. But this:
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Originally Posted by Aiwendil
There seem, at first glance, to be a lot of dei ex machinae in Tolkien... Indeed, Tolkien's very notion of "eucatastrophe" would seem to involve this kind of thing.
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...made me think of an interesting old conversation on the topic of
deus ex machina.