Your opinions- do words and images give "life" to beings?
What are your thoughts on this?
What do you think about the theory that words and images give reality to creatures or other beings? After that is the premise that many religions base their faiths on. Words and images are given power by the very thing that they describe, if the person places power behind them.
What are your thoughts on "created deities" in books (such as Dragonlance, Dungeons&Dragons, and of course Tolkien's world of the Silmarillion). Do the fact that they have been created, even if by a human mind, make them any less real in a sense?
Or perhaps is it that these writers simply recreated many deities based on those of the Ancients?
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