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The Dovahkiin being a master of Alteration may very well be a non-factor: he still need to be happening to know a spell to survive outer space or a vacuum, which to my knowledge he doesn't know. In order to be able to craft such a spell he still needs: 1) he needs time and the fight doesn't allow preparation, learning a spell is described as painstakingly long and difficult, crafting a new spell from scratches should be considerally more difficult; 2) he needs knowledge about the conditions he would face in order to know what he does have to alter, and to my knowledge the Dovahkiin is not a natural science physicist. But really, point 1 should be enough unless Prisoner Metaphysic doesn't gift him preparation time too.
Frankly, surviving in a plane of Oblivion isn't proof of incredible durability, even some Bruma guards menaged that . And there is nothing pointing out any realm within Aetherius - like Sovngarde or the Mantellan Crux - should be otherwise. The ban on entering Sovngarde is most likely just that: a ban upon the portal excluding most people from Shor's private show.
@Ogbunabali: Ghosts? Vampires? Dragonpriests? Durnehviir? Any undead still able to cast spells and use the Thu'um? Even the common draugs laugh at you when you got staggered, a behaviour denoting some form of intelligence.
Frankly, surviving in a plane of Oblivion isn't proof of incredible durability, even some Bruma guards menaged that . And there is nothing pointing out any realm within Aetherius - like Sovngarde or the Mantellan Crux - should be otherwise. The ban on entering Sovngarde is most likely just that: a ban upon the portal excluding most people from Shor's private show.
I'd say there is a marked difference between communicating, most times possibly to do so in a non threatening or frightening manner, and ascribe to incorporeal entities the workings of a material body. Also, like MasterOfArda have already noted before, the whole Silmarillion is written from the point of view of the elves and they have limited understanding of this... but still there is enough proof Melkor corrupted the Ainulindale with just by thinking about changing it.Waria Kambang said:I can't say anything about your claim because i don't know enough about LotR, but in fiction, spirits had shown an ability to talk even without physical body. Can you give me the text that describe Morgoth's act of destroying the universe?
Silmarillion said:But now Il├║vatar sat and hearkened, and for a great while it seemed good to him, for in the music there were no flaws. But as the theme progressed, it came into the heart of Melkor to interweave matters of his own imagining that were not in accord with the theme of Il├║vatar, for he sought therein to increase the power and glory of the part assigned to himself. To Melkor among the Ainur had been given the greatest gifts of power and knowledge, and he had a share in all the gifts of his brethren. He had gone often alone into the void places seeking the Imperishable Flame; for desire grew hot within him to bring into Being things of his own, and it seemed to him that Il├║vatar took no thought for the Void, and he was impatient of its emptiness. Yet he found not the Fire, for it is with Il├║vatar. But being alone he had begun to conceive thoughts of his own unlike those of his brethren.
Some of these thoughts he now wove into his music, and straightway discord arose about him, and many that sang nigh him grew despondent, and their thought was disturbed and their music faltered; but some began to attune their music to his rather than to the thought which they had at first. Then the discord of Melkor spread ever wider, and the melodies which had been heard before foundered in a sea of turbulent sound. But Il├║vatar sat and hearkened until it seemed that about his throne there was a raging storm, as of dark waters that made war one upon another in an endless wrath that would not be assuaged.
@Ogbunabali: Ghosts? Vampires? Dragonpriests? Durnehviir? Any undead still able to cast spells and use the Thu'um? Even the common draugs laugh at you when you got staggered, a behaviour denoting some form of intelligence.