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Originally Posted by littlemanpoet
Life's like that. We pass through it not knowing how things are going to be, and how often has it not been that you look back and know that it could not be any other way? Of course, there are plenty of instances that we look back and wish it could have been different....
 So a reader will have the same experience; even, perhaps, wishing it could have been different in certain ways (like Sméagol repenting!). |
Oh, I thought we were discussing sub-creation. And, for that matter, fairie.
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alatar said,
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Don't think that we're playing the 'what-if' game here
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I assume you are referring to Ilúvatar's words in
Ainulindale but I could be wrong. Perhaps you can elaborate,
alatar?
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Originally Posted by Ilúvatar
he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.
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(It's an interesting touch, isn't it, how the archaic verb form is used to lend authority to his words.)