From: le@main.put.com
Paul S. Person wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 13:32:09 +0000, temujin
> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 09:59:49 -0800, Paul S. Person
>> wrote:
>>
>>>But, IIRC, he /did/ replace the /real/ dome on which the stars were
>>>hung with our universe -- but with Middle Earth covered with a special
>>>canopy on which the stars visible to it were hung.
>>>
>>>He was also planning to clean up the theology a bit, but I don't think
>>>he got very far with that either. In fact, I don't think the
>>>theological problems he saw (or which were called to his attention by
>>>others) were ever specified.
>>>
>>>Presumably, they included the Eru-Manwe-Melchor tinge of (what I am
>>>going to refer to as) Manicheeism.
>>
>>
>>Do you think the intended changes were symptoms of moving towards a more
overt
>>allegory of modern christianity?
>
> The religious aspects are hard to identify, since (IIRC) they were
> never specified.
>
> The problems expressed were all physical: an Earth that starts out
> flat but becomes round, for example. The goal, again IIRC, was to
> harmonize his legendarium with the scientific understanding of
> reality.
>
> IOW, he appears to have taken the conceit that he was describing the
> earliest history (pre-Ice-Age) of our reality a bit too literally ...
When the Red Book was gated into our dimensions for him to translate,
he was too wedded to its actually having referred to our own world rather
than a parallel universe,and was only slowly adapting to reality over
time as his theories were disproved,removing his interpolated glosses...
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