User blog comment:J.S. Clingman/On The Issue of Magic in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit (from a Christian's perspective)/@comment-35923662-20180619053055

G'day J.S!

This is a great little explanation for the 'magic' throughout Tolkien's Legendarium. The guys who run the Prancing Pony Podcast, which I recommend checking out, talk about it here and there. One other thing they discuss is Tolkien's words about human's possessing a sub-creative impulse, as a result of being made in the image of a creator. I think you could argue that such an act of creating life would require said creator to possess an inherent 'magic' to do so, at least from the human perspective.

Awesome stuff!

Cheers,

Sam.