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I have deliberately avoided speaking about YHVH because I don't believe
much light can be shed on Tolkien's creation by reading it in the light of the Bible. The Secondary World must be self contained & not dependent on the Primary - it may reflect aspects of the Primary but it is not an allegory of it.
One can only accept the events & characters of the S.W. as events that happened in, & characters who inhabit, another reality, one which is bound by its own rules & I attempted to demonstrate that applying the rules of this world to the S.W. is bound to lead to confusion - admittedly I have done that in a very roundabout way.
The only approach which is likely to work is to simply read the stories as far as possible without judgement & allow them to work on you as they will....
Or to put it another way, this has, imo, gone as far as it can & I can't sustain anymore interest in it.
So, unless someone manages to come up with some interesting new angle on things to draw me back in I shall leave you all to it now.....
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