| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Gak The Great) |
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| Subject: | (LoTR) Tolkien and the Elves ... |
| Date: | Tue Jan 8 13:10:01 2002 |
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 02:40:59 +1000, Gerard wrote:
>
> > The three elven rings passed away into the West, so I'd pretty much
> >count them out as well.
>
> Actually, that depends on how you interperet 'west'. If you see it as a
> metaphysical metaphor, then yea they're gone. If you see Middle Earth as
> set somewhere in Europe though, maybe the elven rings are somewhere in
> the New World... and in the hands of Immortal Elves.
>
Nope, not the New World. Valinor (Land of the Gods, where the elves went,
for all of you who haven't read the Silmarillion or LotR :) was in the
"west" when earth was still flat (the ship of Arda, or Ea, cannot remeber
right now). After the Evil (TM) had once again struck Arda and estranged the
Númenorians from the Valar, the Valar decided that it was better for them
and for Earth to leave it alone, and made the world a globe, somwhere in the
end of the Akallabêth. The elves were permitted to sail the Straight Road
and so come upon Valinor.
-- GAK THE GREAT
"Ein Ring, sie zu knechten, sie alle zu finden,
Ins Dunkel zu treiben und ewig zu binden,
Im Lande Mordor, wo die Schatten drohn."
Sauron aus "Herr der Ringe von J.R.R. Tolkien
