Middle Earth as a Parallel Universe

[Amarie of the Vanyar]

Aredhel wrote:

How can a four-dimentional human being, even if sundered from the fate of Man, be able to live in a more spiritual universe. Would the Valar be able to keep him alive even when all the reality is stripped off?

In this case I think that the Valar (acting according to the will of Eru) must have been able to keep him alive when Aman was separated from our universe.
And they must have done something similar to keep Frodo, Bilbo, Gimli and Sam alive when they went to Aman. How did they mananged to do it? Of course, I don't know. Eru and the Ainur are able to break physical laws when required.

Aethelwine, I think that Lush has explained very weel why free will is impossible in parallel universes. I only wanted to add that in this theory you never chose one possibility. You do all of them, each one in each of the different universes. The basis of free will is that you chose one option (and that you have only one soul or fëa, by the way). That is why parallel universes and free will are not compatible.

In another thread I have found an article of HCIsland, very well written, that I think that explains much better than what I did the idea of Aman being 'hidden in other dimension':

The article is in this thread:
http://forum.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin...c&f=1&t=003122

And this is the link to the article: http://www.geocities.com/hcisland/stringtolkien.htm

I think it is worth reading it. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]