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Originally Posted by Morthoron
I liken it to the biblical story of Abraham offering his son Isaac as sacrifice to Yahweh. Abraham raised his knife, but Yahweh took mercy on Abraham and rewarded his faith by not allowing Isaac's sacrifice.
It is not a one-on-one comparison, but Eru forbade the sacrifice faithful Aule was willing to make and rewarded him by breathing life into the Dwarves.
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True, the two are not precisely the same, because Isaac's sacrifice was a deliberate test of Abraham's faith, whereas there's no evidence of that being the case with Aulë.
Still, it's an interesting parallel.