Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26210095-20160404001701/@comment-26210095-20160404192238

A few articles which I found of extreme interest:

http://www.darkshire.net/~jhkim/rpg/lordoftherings/magic/principles.html

http://tolkien.slimy.com/essays/MagicEssay.html

http://fin.yserve.net/layers/html/magic.htm