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Old 02-23-2002, 03:57 PM   #21
Bacchus
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Re: RE

Quote:
Originally posted by Captain Stern
Check the last line of the chapter:

But she was not there, nor was it ever known whither the cold waters of Teiglin had taken her.

Make of it what you will...
The key to this passage is the word "whither", which means "where". Thus the passage could have read "...nor was it ever known where the cold waters of Teiglin had taken her."
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Yet neither by wolf, nor by Balrog, nor by Dragon, would Morgoth have achieved his end, but for the treachery of Men.

Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.
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