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.
It’s not a character I’m familiar with, sorry.
What about Gandalf? Is it wrong to call his spells magic?
I don’t think so, he is literally a wizard. And LotR does have a famously soft magic system, so no one knows how it works. That’s magic.
The world was sung into being and that’s how magic works. Everyone knows that.
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.