Philosophy of Language

Philosophy of Language

Eä and Embodied Epiphany: Tolkien’s Medieval Mind in The Silmarillion

Meaning, the Logos, is not something we divine; it is something that is divinely revealed.

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“And Oromë looking upon the Elves was filled with wonder, as though they were beings sudden and marvellous and unforeseen; for so it shall ever be with the Valar. From without the World, though all things may be forethought in music or foreshown in vision from afar, to those who enter verily into Eä each in its time shall be met at unawares as something…

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