Luke’s Reviews > The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faërie > Status Update

“…for Tolkien, as for Aquinas, the delegated, secondary, or intermediate agency of angels and Valar is not something that displaces the Creator’s immediate causality… the interaction of divine and creaturely causality is not a zero-sum game, as though God’s line of action operated on the same plane and therefore in competition with his creatures…”