Origins of Iluvatar

[Knight of Gondor]

Answering where Eru came from is just like asking where God came from. God is above all. He always was, and always is, and always will be. He had no creator, because he is not created. Of course, this concept, along with Salvation and Eternal life are terribly hard to grasp for wimpy 'ol mortals like us, but we can't help but be mortals.

Its one of the things religious people just have to accept, but any questions as to how they came about - much like the chicken and the egg - can lead to many sleepless nights, and severe paranoia.
Off topic, the egg came first!! Dinosaurs laid eggs years before chickens evolved...interesting that...

I guess you can stick a fork in me and call me religous if you want to, but I got bad news for your "Which came first" answer: Dinosaurs had to come out of eggs too, so who laid the egg? Of course, there IS an answer, but just like the theory of evolution, it's based on faith: God created land life (chickens included) on Day 5, according to the Bible, so there you go!

wonder if there were any evolutionist theories in middle-earth??

Nope, I guess they - unlike many people today - saw no need to replace Eru with silly theories of how the earth originated my millions of years' random chance process.

Sorry if I took a rabbit trail there, heh heh. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]