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Originally Posted by Mister Underhill
I mean we have two creation stories at the very least which aren't reconcilable. There's no way for the Silmarillion to pre-date Genesis: "In the beginning..."
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Nice use of the letters,
Mr. U. Did you use those on the Canonicity thread? I think this is a very important aspect of Tolkien, that he wanted active, or perhaps interactive, readers, rather than passive ones.
But as to two creation stories, actually Genesis itself has two, or at least two accounts of primeval time, and I have always rather thought of the Ainulindale and the Valaquenta similarly. So that makes four.
