Thread: And Eru Smiled
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Old 06-14-2005, 09:25 PM   #40
Aiwendil
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Davem wrote:
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Even an athiest, if they weren't too 'militant' could accept Eru within Middle earth
Well, thank you, I believe I will.

Seriously, I think that unless an author is using his or her story as a veiled platform for some specific political or philosophical message, a wide variety of readers who do not share all the beliefs treated as premises in the story can nonetheless enjoy it. Indeed, if this were not true to some extent, then we could not "suspend disbelief" and accept such trappings of Tolkien's world as Elves, magic, etc. For me, accepting the existence of Eru is no different at all from accepting the existence of Gandalf.
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