Causality, fatalism or pure chance? LotR and Matrix revisited - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 01-05-2008, 10:26 AM

Not sure this works, but what seems to be getting said by Tolkien in that "cheating" quote is that eucatastrophe = cheating; which means that it's not really cheating. Do Muslims think that Gabriel coming to Muhammad was "cheating"? Do Christians think that Jesus rising from the grave was "cheating"? Do Jews think that Yahweh providing the ram at the last moment when Abraham was about to kill Isaac, was "cheating"? If so, then myth and real life is full of divine "cheating".

01-05-2008, 10:26 AM	#6
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Not sure this works, but what seems to be getting said by Tolkien in that "cheating" quote is that eucatastrophe = cheating; which means that it's not really cheating. Do Muslims think that Gabriel coming to Muhammad was "cheating"? Do Christians think that Jesus rising from the grave was "cheating"? Do Jews think that Yahweh providing the ram at the last moment when Abraham was about to kill Isaac, was "cheating"? If so, then myth and real life is full of divine "cheating".