Originally posted by Pianoman1
Please, this is a sensible discussion. Gandalf is a fictional character devised by Tolkien, and as far as I am aware there is no adult seriously postulating the existence of Father Christmas to other adults, outside of a loony bin.
tolkien could have been a dimensional traveler, went to middle earth, and based his books on actual historical events (from that world).
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in one of the Harry Dresden books the character Santa Claus was based on makes an appearance. he is fat, jolly and has a beard. but he is a supernatural fae who is quite happy murdering humans. he was seen at some point in human history, and he became the Santa claus myth.
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who could know for sure what myths are real, and what are distorted representations of actual characters?
let's revisit noah's flood. it is obvious his boat as presented in the bible would not be possible. a global flood is not possible. but who can say there never was a person named noah, who saw that he keeps getting flooded, and decided to build a boat, taking not elephants and koalas with him, but simply his livestock?