Thread: What was Shelob, and more importantly, what was Ungoliant?
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Old 01-15-2008, 03:32 PM   #51
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Originally Posted by Gwathagor
Would you agree that it is better to say, instead, that it is all a part of Him, since it came from Him? I think it's an important distinction, in the same way that a genus is not part of a species.
Not that I would agree with Lal about Eru, but even this formulation of yours is getting very close to something that is called pantheism, which I think is also not Eru's case. Obviously, Arda is not a "part of him".

Anyway, what was the topic of the thread? *hint hint*
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