What a topic idea, NN10! I'm kind of surprised it hasn't come up till now. My big story has through its seven revisions been completely bedrocked in religion, specifially traditional Christianity - what I come from. But the eighth version is breaking away from a strict adherence to it, which I needed. There's still the Genesis 6 thing about the sons of the gods and the daughters of men, which is the basis for my main question anyway, of "what if all the mythologies were true?". So anyway, it seems my religious stuff is retreating further and further back into the background. Which means it's getting more like Tolkien than it used to be. Which I like. I'm not sure how it's all going to play out, but with the world we know as dimension #1 and faerieland as dimension #2, I still have a kind of abode of the Deity as dimension #3. All three dimensions impinge on each other, which means that they all take up the same place in space and time, it's just that dimension #1 people can't see #2 and #3, and whereas faerie people can see #1 as well as their own #2, they can't perceive #3. Those in dimension #3 (purgatory? paradise? heaven? I don't know what to call it, maybe all three plus some other things - nirvana? valhalla? hmmm? ) can perceive the other 2 dimensions. Little by little one of my protagonists begins to be aware of this third dimension, and begins to perceive it and gets frustrated that nobody will listen to her about what she sees. Which is more stated more clearly here than I've ever done before anywhere. Wow! Problem is, it doesn't come into my story until deep into the sequel which I haven't written much of at all. So my set up is really different from Tolkien's, even if it partakes of the idea of keeping the gods and goddesses in the background.
Happy writing!
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