Just looking at the names that Elves gave to Men ...Engwar, the Sickly, and Firimar, the Mortals; and they named them the Usurpers, the Strangers, and the Inscrutable, the Self-cursed, and the Heavy-handed, the Night-fearers Maybe the Nodorin bias was more marked but the text says that these names were given by the Eldar in general so from that to clever talking animals there isn't such a big jump.
And I agree that the fates for Men according to BoLT are not very appealing. The Gift of Iluvatar must have been a solution to provide a Christian type of trascendence without too many details.
Men have feared the Valar rather than loved them and have not understood the purposes of the Powers Little wonder if the chapter starts stating that the Valar washed their hands off Middle-earth and let Morgoth run wild!
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...Engwar, the Sickly, and Firimar, the Mortals; and they named them the Usurpers, the Strangers, and the Inscrutable, the Self-cursed, and the Heavy-handed, the Night-fearers
Maybe the Nodorin bias was more marked but the text says that these names were given by the Eldar in general so from that to clever talking animals there isn't such a big jump.
And I agree that the fates for Men according to BoLT are not very appealing. The Gift of Iluvatar must have been a solution to provide a Christian type of trascendence without too many details.
Men have feared the Valar rather than loved them and have not understood the purposes of the Powers
Little wonder if the chapter starts stating that the Valar washed their hands off Middle-earth and let Morgoth run wild!