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Message: <blockquote data-quote="molonel" data-source="post: 3360623" data-attributes="member: 10412">Well, say something worth responding to more often, and I'll oblige..... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Right. I just can't possibly imagine a last-minute deus ex machina ending being written by an atheist, an agnostic or a pagan.They arrive at the last second because arriving with an hour or two to spare just isn't as dramatic.Nobody cares WHY he did it, because ultimately a story stands on its own merits and not the blah-blah-blah explanations that authors like to fill our ears with. The latter are usually extremely brainy, usually written or constructed long afterward, and often wrong. The prefaces of Henry James's novels come to mind, or Thomas Merton's journals after his zeal cooled off and he chilled out.Tolkien did reach for the god machine a little too often. But he was always learning, and his means of tying up stories in the trilogy and the hobbit, while quite similar, are certainly an improvement over some of the drivel you find in those mind-numbing tomes Tolkien's son churns out every few years.Logical to you. Because, of course, it makes PERFECT sense that the eagles should not want to involve themselves into the affairs of men ... unless some scrawny dwarves and a hobbit need to be plucked out of trees, or an old man needs to be saved from a tower, or two smoldering hobbits need to be plucked from the side of a mountain, or some orcs need to be killed in a battle.But other than that, they never really get involved, and keep to themselves.</blockquote>

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