02-24-2009, 11:05 PM | #1 |
Hobbit
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What do you think?
I have a few things i have been wondering for a while.
1. how do you picture the music of the ainur. Like how can it physically create something. 2. Is there a heaven or hell described in the HoME. if not how do you visualize based of readings. |
02-24-2009, 11:35 PM | #2 |
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Hi Monkey 10120...
What I think: 1. I'm not so sure the music actually created anything. I think it was very beautiful music, very complex, widely varied - and went on for what we would consider a very long time, perhaps decades or centuries. I think it mostly created a 'vision' for the participants, and they then went on to 'make' what they had 'seen'. Isn't it stated something like that? (sorry - I've loaned out one copy of the Silmarillion, and can't find my other - maybe I loaned them both! ) However, I do not object to the idea that the music could have created something. Much like the spoken word of God was said to create, in the first book of the Bible. I don't discount that at all. 2. "Beyond the circles of the world" I think...
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05-12-2009, 12:56 PM | #3 | |
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Then Melkor comes along with his bombastic dissonance ... which may start out as somewhat classical as well but quickly turns to a meaner variant of heavy metal.
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