The Story of the Silmarians

The first story in its the a anulindale, which is the story of the creation of the balar. The original story is that a luvatar creates all the beings first from the divine mind. So heis pulling from divine exem plarism. We know this in orthodoxy as the doctrine of the loge or. It comes from neoplatonism. Inother wards, this is clearlya neo platonic connection.