Re: Eru, the Word and Greek syntax (was Re: Finnish, IE, Germanic)

Hello,

> But it is Tolkien's creation myth, which may be strongly
> influenced by the
> Christian one, but is not identical. And IIRC the main, if
> only trait of Eru is
> to be the Word. Although I don't know very well the creation
> myth of Middle
> Earth, so I may be wrong.
Errm, no. Eru does *say* the word (which is in Quenya interpreted as
'Ea!', which is translated as 'Let it be', but is can grammatically be
an aorist, and therefore it is rather like a performative in my
opinion), but his traits are different. Anyway, 'word' is not his main
predicate, definitely.

Pavel
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