Ooh, love your thoughts on language. That sort of thing, involving the interplay of language and cognition, is actually very close to my heart and has influenced my course of study. Indeed I do see a metaphysical being like a Maia as being limited and changed by prolonged habitation of an earthly form. The Ainulindalë is especially interesting in that I see it as something more impressive than music as we'd define it, something really quite incomprehensible once a being is bound up in time and space.
The yearning for the Blessed Realm I would see as a natural result, yeah, not something inflicted on them. I suspect J.R.R.T.'s thoughts might also relate to a sort of sacred quality of Aman, but I think homesickness or missing friends and greater powers would be sufficient on its own.
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Date: 2012-09-02 06:56 pm (UTC)The yearning for the Blessed Realm I would see as a natural result, yeah, not something inflicted on them. I suspect J.R.R.T.'s thoughts might also relate to a sort of sacred quality of Aman, but I think homesickness or missing friends and greater powers would be sufficient on its own.