Why Theistic Evolution Does not "fit".

[KerrMetric]

This all reminds me of Eru whom the Elves called Iluvatar. Death was his gift to Men but Melkor corrupted the concept.

 

[Melethiel]

The all reminds me of Eru whom the Elves called Iluvatar. Death was his gift to Men but Melkor corrupted the concept.

I always did think that Tolkien had a nice concept of things. Actually helped my transition to TE.

 

[japhy]

I always did think that Tolkien had a nice concept of things. Actually helped my transition to TE.

Tolkien's creation myth contains, hands-down, the best non-Scriptural explanation of the role of evil in our world:

In his work "The Silmarillion", which describes the history of Middle Earth before and during the time of the Elves, he includes the Creation mythology of the Elves. Briefly (to give this passage context), Eru ("the one") called Iluvatar by the Elves, began creation by thinking into being the Ainur, musical angelic figures. The Ainur were devised to make music before Eru, and then he gifted them by bringing them all together and allowing them to perform a theme as a group. It began as perfect as Eru intended it to be. Then one Ainur, Melkor, the mightiest and wisest of them, decided he would weave his own theme into the song they were making. The themes began competing with one another: the beautiful, slow Music of Eru, and the braying, loud, repetitive music of Melkor (and those who feared to oppose him). The music ended with a chord "deeper than the Abyss, higher than the Firmament, piercing as the light of the eye of Iluvatar". Eru stood in silence and then spoke these words:

Mighty are the Ainur, and mightiest among them is Melkor; but that he may know, and all the Ainur, that I am Iluvatar, those things that ye have sung, I will show them forth, that ye may see what ye have done. And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.
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[Dannager]

Melkor is freakin' metal.

 

[KerrMetric]

Tolkien's creation myth...

What are you calling myth???? How dare you go against Music of the Ainur scripture.

 

[Assyrian]

Tolkein was a professor of English Lit. He understood what a myth was. If the Silmarillion was a myth, Tolkein would have known this and would have told us in the book.

 

[japhy]

Heh, I apologize. What I meant to call it was "the revelation of creation given by God to the Elves, which God saw fit to reveal to Tolkien".

*cough cough*