Eru and the Ainur in LotR?

[Meneldil]

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Re: Coronation of Aragorn

Þus cwæþ lindil:

<blockquote>Quote:<hr> In some ways the culminating or transition point from the 3rd to the 4th age is [more than the rings passing west -which were largely if not entirely relics at that point] was the Coronation of Aragorn by Gandalf the Maia. The Valar [their thrones more exactly] are envoked as a blessing upon Aragorn King of Men, descendant of Elven-Kings and Melian the Maia, by Olorin the direct representative of the Valar , newly returned frrom the Blessed realm<hr></blockquote>

A very interesting point of view, comrade. I, however, view the transition between the third age as representing, rather, the disappearance of all active cause of evil (Melkor at the end of the 1st age and Sauron at the end of the 3rd age) from Arda. The evil caused by Morgoth's corruption of Arda, however, remains, and the history of Arda from the 4th age onwards represents the struggle of fallen man against that corruption; to culminate in the eventual healing of Arda.

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