What was it all for?

[davem]

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

Maybe Middle Earth is secretly Taoist in nature.

Or maybe it just is.

What's the point of asking why? After all, why not?

Well, it certainly is. It exists. Therefore it is something. It was intended (by Tolkien at least) that it exist. He desired that it be. More than that he desired that it be something specific. He was working toward a goal. He wanted to make something.

I suppose there's as much point in asking why as there is in asking how, in asking what did he create as in asking what did he use?

Why do we focus on his sources, on his biography, explore the world he created if it means nothing. We're constantly attempting to understand M-e & how it came to be. If it is entirely without meaning why do we respond so deeply to it?

If we find meaning in it is that meaning just imposed on it by us? Are we actually just seeking to impose a meaning on it, or are we seeking a meaning which we feel, on some level, to be there?