Why Music?

http://tolkienmedievalandmodern.blogspot.com/2014/04/why-music.html

As we discussed in class, Tolkien did not invent the idea of music occurring during the creation of the world but rather drew on medieval and biblical sources. In the Job version of creation, the stars sang and the angels shouted.

I think that Tolkien uses music in Ainulindalë because its physical properties allow for it to exist and be described in particular ways within the story and because it fits within the ideas of the medieval philosophers of our primary reality.

Pythagoras and Music of the Spheres

https://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/sta/sta19.htm

>>7914836

Girls club time

>>7914990

Green Castle refers to the US Army Corps of Engineers

Who wear a patch with a green castle on their arms

When they are wearing combat fatigues

In civilian work, the patch they wear has a red castle.

>>7915198

John Ernst Worrell Keely who died in 1898 did a lot of work building devices that exploited frequency and vibration.

https://www.stolenhistory.org/threads/the-work-of-john-ernst-worrell-keely.388/

http://www.svpvril.com/

https://youtu.be/Uwry1yUJTH4

https://youtu.be/BsqOLCXYznE

Most modern people have NO CLUE

What ancient people were actually capable of.

The main reasons we do not see tons of evidence of advanced tech

Is because they didn't need it or want it.

And the secondary reason is that things like the Clovis meteor strike

And tsunamis followed by increased volcanic eruption and a little ice age

Kind of swept a lot of stuff away.

And when you take a close look at a stone-age civilization

Like ancient egypt

You discover that they were really quite sophisticated before they started to exploit metal.

It's just that in most places, the wood and plant fibres and skins and paints and mud houses, didn't last until our time.

>>7915293

If you want to read Keely's own writings

Here is a 416 page PDF book available from archive.org

https://ia800906.us.archive.org/21/items/keelyhisdiscover00moorrich/keelyhisdiscover00moorrich.pdf

I think he stumbled across some things he really didn't understand

And since he was not as brilliant as Tesla

He was never able to make proper use of his work other than making toys and demos.

Those who follow in his footsteps are missing the whole point.

>>7915415

Here is a guy who was not such a deep thinker,

But he was a great practical engineer.

https://www.livescience.com/41075-coral-castle.html

There are things to learn from examining

what he did and how he did it all alone

by building some very clever machines.