#but questions of free will and evil and the Fall are central to the legendarium
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If Morgoth is a Thought of Eru Ilúvatar, and Morgoth is the original corruption of Arda, then I don’t think Eru is as omnibenevolent as Tolkien would want us to think.
#tolkien#silmarillion#morgoth#the fallacy of divinity#something interesting is that the ainur are fragments of divinity#different aspects of the greater divine#they reflect certain tendencies of their creator#choosing evil does not mean that your source was evil#but it certainly means the source had the capability#this stands directly in opposition to the christian god#who is innately and diametrically opposed to evil and can no more choose evil than he can change himself#to many people this may feel like slicing hairs#but questions of free will and evil and the Fall are central to the legendarium#and if Morgoth was the first fall but his capacity for it came from Eru?#well#maybe the fall started one more link up the chain#btw#this all came from an idle thought experiment#about how a lot of the Silm would make sense if eru was actually a sadistic overlord who made morgoth#and set him loose to fuck up everything in the world through an echoing pattern of corruption and greed and destruction
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