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01-21-2005, 07:26 PM | #1 | |
Elven Warrior
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seven times the years...
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Any thoughts are most welcome.
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“To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West, west away, the round sun is falling. Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling, The voices of my people that have gone before me? I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me; For our days are ending and our years failing. I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing. Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling, Sweet are the voices in the lost Isle calling, In Eresëa, in Elvenhome that no man can discover, Where the leaves fall not: land of my people forever!” |
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01-21-2005, 09:41 PM | #2 |
Honourary Elitist Inklette
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I always assumed that was some sort of entish ideosyncracy. arg...cannot spell.
However, it is similar wording to the phrase seventy times seven, which is used in the bible to refer to a very large amount of things, or time. And, so, perhaps, Tolkien drew inspiration from that phrasing... |
01-21-2005, 11:39 PM | #3 |
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Saruman had already began cutting down trees before gandalf was captured - he had simply left the trees within Isengard itself standing in order to maintain the illusion of normalcy until he was ready to spring his plans.
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01-22-2005, 03:31 AM | #4 |
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Maybe, since random numbers were placed in ancient dialogue in key parts of the Bible that could not possibly have been quoted accurately, Tolkien decided to do something similar to emphasize the legendary proportions of the Ents' glory (or he intended it to sound like Frodo making this distinction while recording his journey). I doubt it, but that would be cool.
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01-22-2005, 01:24 PM | #5 |
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probably just implying a very long time, annd to ents, a long time is a very looooooooooooooooooong time indeed
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01-23-2005, 02:40 PM | #6 |
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well in the book of revelations in the bible 4 signifies the world, 6 imperfection, 7 totality or perfection, 12 israels tribes or the apostles, and 1000 is immensity.
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