1. The Creation Story: The Ainulindalë
Lord of the Rings Lorecast
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Elven Words - The Father of the World
Some of these words are not going to be familiar and some of the phrasing. So there's a few things I want to dissect here. And that's definitely something that Tolkien understood is that every piece of writing comes from the perspective of the elven. These are stories by elves about what they understand about the creation of the world. This isn't an objective view. This is a perspective from the elves.
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