Songs don’t actually create worlds and characters, that only happens in this fictional story. So from our perspective this is something supernatural aka magic.
If the character Gandalf himself does understand how his spells work in detail, it might not be magic to him. Be we don’t know if he knows that.
Oh sorry, i glossed over that a bit. You can of course have fiction without magic. Take any story that plays in our world and doesn’t have any supernatural elements.
But most science fiction will have “magic”, though it usually marketed as some future technology. Like Star Trek, for example. In-universe they don’t have any magic (I think, not a hyper-trekkie), because everything can be explained by in-universe technologies and phenomena. But of course it might as well be magic to us, because that stuff doesn’t work in the real world.
That is not an explanation for how something works.
Well it’s what it says in the Silmarillion
I know, but it’s still not an explanation.
Songs don’t actually create worlds and characters, that only happens in this fictional story. So from our perspective this is something supernatural aka magic.
If the character Gandalf himself does understand how his spells work in detail, it might not be magic to him. Be we don’t know if he knows that.
By that logic, anything fictional is magic, including science fiction.
Basically, yes.
Well we already have the word “fiction”, I want magic to mean something else
Oh sorry, i glossed over that a bit. You can of course have fiction without magic. Take any story that plays in our world and doesn’t have any supernatural elements.
But most science fiction will have “magic”, though it usually marketed as some future technology. Like Star Trek, for example. In-universe they don’t have any magic (I think, not a hyper-trekkie), because everything can be explained by in-universe technologies and phenomena. But of course it might as well be magic to us, because that stuff doesn’t work in the real world.