02-05-2002, 06:50 PM | #21 | |
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RE: Where do dragons come from?
Ahhh, it would appear you're right Lightice, here's the passage:
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Then hate overcame Fëanor's fear, and he cursed Melkor and bade him be gone, saying 'Get thee gone from my gate, thou jail-crow of Mandos!' And he shut the doors of his house in the face of the mightiest of all dwellers in Eä. |
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02-06-2002, 07:16 PM | #22 |
EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED
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Ah. Good call. I remembered the part about "not now any dragon left on earth" but not the part about Ancalagon himself not being able to destroy the One Ring.
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"...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160. |
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