Ironically enough, Tolkien’s elves don’t use words like “magic” and are closer to the “dwarves” (tech elves) or Dwemer in the Elder Scrolls, who similarly don’t use words like “magic” as true definitions for anything. It’s just a frame of reference, or a way of describing things, and their smiths and engineers are their equivalent of mages, and their scientists or scholars are their ‘arcane philosophers’, etc. To a Dwemer spells are just machine activators. Their star signs are renamed: the Automaton (the Apprentice), the Warmachine (the Atronach), the Mechanist (the Mage), and the Laboratory (the Ritual), etc.
Similar to how the modern day wizard is just the dabbling mad scientist, or some alien (the being piloting the UFO is going to transcend our laws/understanding of physics to be sure) sage, etc. The words change and the aesthetics shift, but all the essences are still there.
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>Trivial to avoid in the counterfactual where the religion, or whatever other model of superstition-in-real-history one wishes to use, is just objectively correct.
And it's trivial to do a counter example to your "counterfactual" such as with the Dwemer in the Elder Scrolls or the elves in Tolkien's works.
>Trivial to avoid in the counterfactual where the religion, or whatever other model of superstition-in-real-history one wishes to use, is just objectively correct.
And it's trivial to do a counter example to your "counterfactual" such as with the Dwemer in the Elder Scrolls or the elves in Tolkien's works.