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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Bree
Posts: 390
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Iarwin, you’ve thrown me off. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
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I do see what you are saying, though. For elves, magic isn’t magic at all, it belongs to them by nature. However, elves aren't exactly natural. Elves are preternatural, and so their magical abilities are preternatural. Elves, Gandalf, Saruman, the balrog, Sauron, even Smaug, orcs, trolls, ents, dwarves and hobbits are all preternatural. Magical abilities may belong to them by definition, but these abilities remain preternatural. Galadriel may not understand the word “magic”, but magical she is. If we call these magics supernatural powers, then I think we run the risk of reducing magic to grace. If that is the case, then magic does not belong to these creatures by definition. (Retraction: How can we seriously say that anything belongs "naturally" to creatures that are in their very essence preternatural? In the above posts, I’ve changed my mind about the wording: “belongs to them by definition” is much clearer than “naturally”.) Quote:
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