"Falling" - and Repentance and Redemption in LOTR

[Rían]

Originally posted by Ñólendil
Thanks for the comments RÃ*an. I don't have time now to respond, just wanted to let you know that I read them, and that understand what you meant much better now.

Something I came across t'other night on the whole idea of realities (a fairy is talking to a prince about a princess he's just seen) :

from "The Back of the North Wind", by George MacDonald

"Do you like her?" asked the fairy.

"Oh! don't I?" said the prince. "More than you would believe, mother."

"A fairy can believe anything that ever was or ever could be," said the old woman.

"Then you are a fairy?" asked the prince.

"Yes," said she.

"Then what do you do for things not to believe?" asked the prince.

"There's plenty of them - everything that never was nor ever could be."

I think that expresses what I was trying to say really well.

And I like how the conversation ends - they go on a bit more, then MacDonald writes: "But he could get nothing more out of the fairy, and had to go to bed unanswered, which was something of a trial."