Aevum Interval: Clockdown of the Heavens (Multi-Fic SI Cycle)

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Woah, thanks for the long response. I feel like I may have misread a bit of it then. I'll probably give it another shot sometime. To be blunt, the god from his world would have to be an actual character for me to be interested in the story. Meaning they'd have to interface with the world and speak to the other gods and stuff.

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1.) Well, first and foremost, before I really respond to that question to prevent misunderstandings, what do you actually mean by an actual character? Because people use that term "actual character" for radically different meanings. It's not a universal term. When people say that, depending on what background you have, it could be different from what you are trying to imply.

If you mean in this case the Judeo-Christian GOD interacting with the inhabitants, then yes, He would be a "character" in that sense, in the same way in Scriptures where He clearly interacts with His children. So, in that sense, yes, He is a Character, and He is also the Author. That's the strange paradox.

But the key is this: He does so the way He always has. He is not reduced to a peer among any of the pantheons. He is not a limited deity sharing the stage. He remains the Author who can step into the narrative, the same way He did at Sinai, at Damascus, in the lives of the prophets, in the life of Job, and ultimately in the Incarnation. That's what makes Him a 'character' in the highest, not lowest, sense.

So the paradox stands:
He is both the Author beyond the page and the Presence who steps onto the page — without ceasing to be who He is."

I feel like I made the classic mistake of a Fanfic reader and sorts lurked and liked, but haven't commented.

I deeply enjoy the premise behind this entire story. When I first read the full Lord of The Rings series and some of the Silmirillion I realized how Tolkien had implied that Eru, creator of Middle Earth and everything in the world he'd brought to life was GOD. A different world but still created by the Lord known by a different name.

Exploring other fictional settings for similar parallels has been an interesting hobby for me since then

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1.) J.R.R. Tolkien is in fact one of my main inspirations for this work of mine, and similar. He pretty much gave me the countless hints, when you really stop and read all of his works, and I realized...

...There's so much I really don't know of what I really believed. So, with Tolkien's inspiration, I look at all of the old sources again. I try to look at the Scriptures, the Apostolic Tradition, the Magisterium which especially has alll of the Popes. I try to look at the Church Fathers, Doctors of the Church, Scholastics, and Saints. I try to look at every Christian author, whether ones like Tolkien, or C.S. Lewis, or John Milton, or Dante Aligheri, and such. I try to look at Ancient Jewish and Old Testament commentators on the Scriptures. I try to look at the Orthodox Churches and their point of view. I try to look at all of the history of Protestantism. I try to look at all of the natural and legitimate sciences, which is different from mere opinion.

I look at all of this and realize that the Catholic faith of the modern day is too misunderstood and too underrated and too falsly simplified. There's so much here, that one can actually make any story coherent if you actually knew dogma and doctrine, you'd know which is which, you'd explore themes it hadn't been explored before.

What does it actually mean to be human?

The Church has answered that already, and all I'm doing is bit by bit, showing it as an intrcate part of the narrative.

2.) When Tolkien designed the Valar and the Maiar which make up the entirety of the Ainur, he wasn't pulling it out of random. He was in fact, even if unintentionally, invoking Saint Thomas Aquinas who had dealt with such things. That there are angels, which are not part of the Nine Choirs and are not the first creatures, but nevertheless would logically be part of what Saint Thomas Aquinas would refer to as the countless pure spirits that are not the angels, but are spiritual beings with distinct natures under GOD with their own assigned dignities. I would also refer to the Condemnations of Paris around the 1200s (specifically 1277) which pretty much, under a Pope's authority through a bishop by the name of Etienne Tempier, hammer the point that what the modern understanding of simplifying things to just angels and humans are not in fact the proper way at all, and pretty much condemned the certainty outright. That GOD as Creator cannot be limited to a false simplistic binary. The Angels of the LORD in the Scriptures are only one category of rational spiritual beings, not the only one. GOD could create innumerable orders of spiritual intelligences that are not angels in the strict sense. Once again, medieval condemnations (Paris 1277) rejected any claim that God could not create such beings.

So when Tolkien creates the Ainur, he's not inventing a new metaphysics. He's dramatizing a classical one.