The relationship betwen Music/Singing and Magic

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Originally Posted by Nogrod

I think combining mythology and evolutionary biology this way is a bit complicated... we might be kind of nearer to Tolkien's musical magic than with the courtship explanation.

Tolkien connected music with magic because that's so throughout mythic tradition. In Tolkien's universe, all of creation was a song. I didn't mean to imply that he did it because he related it to courtship -- that was my own supposition as to why, biologically, music affects us so strongly.