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Originally Posted by Bethberry
Lalwendë suggests that Arda and faerie are different aspects of the same thing—what is this thing?
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Originally Posted by me
faerie, which is at once a different world and the same world as Arda.
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Faerie is nobody's creation, but Arda is a literary creation. Yet as Faerie exists in our imaginations (it could in fact be real, just that we cannot quite grasp
how to get there), and as Arda is the product of an imagination, further developed by many other readers' imaginations, Arda must have something of faerie contained within.