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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 16 Dec 2010, 18:19 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:19:16 -0800
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On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:41 AM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ehh...The creation story in Silmarillion simply does not jive with Genesis.
> I don't see how all the hammers and grease in Mordor could wedge it in.

How does it not? Eru/Iluvatar/God speaks the world into being (the
actual act of creation is his word Ea: let it be), just as in Genesis.
If the details vary, well, someone as intelligent as Tolkien cannot
have failed to notice that they vary in Genesis, too, where there are
two incompatible creation accounts.

> ?While there's nothing _hostile_ to Judeo-Christianity in Middle Earth, I
> seem to recall that Tolkien said in "Letters" that he deliberately left
> religion out of the books.

That was specifically referring to _LotR_, and even there there are
hints of religion, as when Faramir and company "say grace" before
meals.

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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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