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Gwaihir, since I didn't express any allegiance to a particular brand of thinking (be it "daft," "linear," circular, triangular, square, or oval) in the post to which you are responding to, I am inclined to believe that you couldn't be bothered to read my post in its entirety. I suppose you, once again, didn't have the time? (This is going back to your previous statement that you don't have time for certain kinds of thinking)

Amarie, your post confused and, at the same uncomfortable time, enlightened me. You've articulated what I've been trying to say for a few days on this thread: free will would be missing from a parallel universe, which is the chief reason the idea makes me uncomfortable in the first place.

So the Undying Lands do not fit into the four-dimensional universe we are used to perceiving, but they are, at the same time, inside the eleven-dimensional universe? I don't know if that makes sense to me, because wouldn't that mean that they are, in fact, situated in the other seven dimensions that we cannot notice? See what I mean?...Ok, maybe it's nigh time to admit that I'm an idiot when it comes to physics and leave it at that.

Also, going with the thought in the previous paragraph: what would the whole dimension-thing make of Tuor?

...Gah. The more I think about it, the more I realize that Tolkien was not a physicist, and wish to leave it at that.